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Wildfires may put aggregate cat bonds back in investor focus: Plenum

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Wildfires may put aggregate cat bonds back in investor focus: Plenum

The ongoing wildfires across California, Oregon and other western parts of the United States may put investor focus back onto aggregate catastrophe bonds, according to specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager Plenum Investments. A number of aggregate catastrophe bonds were impacted after losses from the 2018 wildfires in California drove cedants accumulated qualifying losses above…

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Could You Give Up These 7 Expenses to Save Thousands of Dollars a Year?

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Could You Give Up These 7 Expenses to Save Thousands of Dollars a Year?

If you’ve looked over your budget and think you can’t cut it down anymore, maybe you need to look a little harder. There are probably some expenses you still could reduce — or drop altogether — to save thousands of dollars a year. We found some examples of these costs. Here’s how to slash them…

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Artemis Live: Interview with Christian Mumenthaler, CEO, Swiss Re

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Artemis Live: Interview with Christian Mumenthaler, CEO, Swiss Re

Christian Mumenthaler, Chief Executive Officer of the world’s largest reinsurance company Swiss Re, joined us this month, to discuss how his company has fared since the pandemic, the state of the market and what his outlook and priorities are for 2021. Mumenthaler discussed a wide range of topics, from the current status of Swiss Re…

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6 Ways to Find Meaning and Purpose in Retirement

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on 6 Ways to Find Meaning and Purpose in Retirement

This story originally appeared on NewRetirement. While we’re in the daily grind of working for a living, we often visualize life after retirement as happy, stress-free relaxation. Getting a little R&R is certainly important, but there is a limit to the amount of napping, puttering around the house and daytime television a person can take.…

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28 Keys to Building Wealth — Even in Your 50s

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on 28 Keys to Building Wealth — Even in Your 50s

This story originally appeared on NewRetirement. To build wealth, many people think you need a Wall Street job, good luck or just to be born into advantageous circumstances. Those things definitely help, but building wealth can happen by following a few best practices and habits consistently. You can even begin building wealth in your 50s.…

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Philippines gets disaster insurance pilot & $500m disaster contingent loan from ADB

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Philippines gets disaster insurance pilot & $500m disaster contingent loan from ADB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched its first pilot disaster insurance scheme in the Philippines and has also approved a $500 million loan for the country that is contingent on a natural disaster or public health emergency occurring. The contingent loan facility is similar to the World Bank catastrophe deferred drawdown options (CAT-DDO’s) that…

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Hannover Re expects significant P&C rate increases, record highs for ILS

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Hannover Re expects significant P&C rate increases, record highs for ILS

German reinsurance company Hannover Re is forecasting significant rate increases across property and casualty reinsurance and the expectation of “new record highs” in insurance-linked securities (ILS) over the medium term. Hannover Re gave its view on the market this morning, in place of the cancelled Monte Carlo Rendez-vous. The reinsurance company is expecting broad rate…

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Best of Artemis, week ending 13th September 2020

By Angelica | Sep 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Best of Artemis, week ending 13th September 2020

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 13th 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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COVID-19 is rattling the nerves of preemie parents [PODCAST]

By Angelica | Sep 13, 2020 | Comments Off on COVID-19 is rattling the nerves of preemie parents [PODCAST]

“With COVID-19, all of those memories have come flooding back. It is as if I am back in the NICU staring at that tiny infant and worried that she would get sick. Only now I have to pull myself out of that horrific daydream and stare at my teenager and pray that she will get…

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