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After an impactful month of August, analyst firm Jefferies believes that insured catastrophe and weather losses are running above average and that for most insurance and reinsurance firms they will now be ahead of budgets in 2020. Jefferies team has analyse severe weather and catastrophe activity through the year so far and estimated its cost…
Read MoreA new treatment promises to arrest tooth decay without drilling. It's not the usual blah, blah, blah. Click here to sign up for our free newsletter. Silver diamine fluoride, an antimicrobial liquid medication, can be painted on teeth to stop decay in its tracks. The low-cost, pain-free technique is being used to treat cavities in…
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An estimated 75% of households in the Asia Pacific region will face financial stress in the event of the death of the main breadwinner, according to research from Swiss Re. The reinsurance firms recent research highlights the significant lack of uptake of life insurance products in the Asia Pacific region, as well as the massive…
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Isosceles Insurance Limited, the transformer and segregated cell structure operated by Marsh & McLennan Companies and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter to issue privately placed insurance-linked securities or catastrophe bonds has completed issuance of another transaction. This $25 million Isosceles Insurance Ltd. (Series 2020-C1) transaction is the second deal to come to light from the issuance…
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The winding down and running-off of Markel CATCo Investment Management’s retrocession focused investment fund, the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., continues apace, with the manager securing another $68.9 million release from side pockets established for potential loss reserves. The Markel CATCo managed retrocessional insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund has been successfully retrieving capital that had been…
Read MoreHere are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 20th September 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Register for our November reinsurance &…
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“Both clinical and direct-to-consumer genetic testing have become significantly less costly and more common, providing people with access to a wealth of information about everything from their ethnicity and family lineage to their risk for certain diseases and how they will respond to medications such as blood thinners and antidepressants. But before you decide to…
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We love dividend investing and reaching financial freedom from this passive income source. We wanted to show you 5 Technology Stocks that pay dividends! These are massive tech companies, that you should know most of the names, that can add a strong dividend income source for your portfolio. What are the 5 Dividend Tech Stocks…
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The patient arrived in cardiac arrest. He had been brought to our emergency department in the middle of the night. Although he had a significant cardiac history, including bypass surgery, he was only in his late 40s. His transport from his house to our department had been less than 10 minutes, and the pre-hospital team…
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Somewhere in Wuhan, China, a bat was eaten — and the world as we knew it was over. (Note to self: Never have your bat below medium, and avoid bat tartare like the plague.) Kids stayed home. So did their parents. They started talking to each other, instead of watching their phones while rushing from…
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