White Mountains has reported that its investment into the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, which supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark, delivered pre-tax income of…
I ran across this article by David Beckworth that discusses the issues with the reduction of the Fed’s balance sheet (called “Quantitative Tightening” or QT). The issue…
Long-term U.S. treasury rates increased this week. The 30-year treasury rate had an increase of 0.05%. The 10-year treasury rate had an increase of 0.02% and is…
Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re is now targeting up to $150 million of aggregate and subsequent event retrocession covering North American peak perils from its new Matterhorn…
U.S. treasury rates were relatively flat this week. The 30-year treasury rate had a decrease of 0.01%. The 10-year treasury rate remained unchanged and is 4.24%. The…
Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has released the latest edition of its cyber rate index, indicating that an oversupply of capacity resulted in a cyber aggregate excess of…
The “sell the dollar” trade is coming up in the chatter I see. I think that economists love making international trade and finance more complicated than it…
Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, the hedge fund-focused arm of the global asset manager, has moderated its stance on catastrophe bonds from ‘strongly overweight’ to ‘overweight’. Despite this…