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Run-off specialist Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) will now acquire American Safety Reinsurance (ASRe), a Bermuda subsidiary of American Safety Holdings, which is itself merging with financial services holding company Fairfax Financial Holdings, displacing Tower Group International on the deal.   21 August 2013
Insurance
Third Point Reinsurance has priced its initial public offering (IPO) of some 22.1 million common shares at $12.50 per share – at the lower end of the proposed end – raising some $276 million.   15 August 2013
Alternative Risk Transfer
Kane, the global insurance manager, has launched a new independent private catastrophe bond platform. The company said the platform could facilitate the flow of smaller transactions into the collateralized reinsurance sector.   13 August 2013
News
Bermuda-based reinsurer, Third Point Reinsurance, has commenced an initial public offering of 22.2 million of its common shares pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).   5 August 2013
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First Mutual Transportation Assurance Company, a New York State licensed and domiciled captive insurance company and subsidiary of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), has become the first company to issue a cat bond to protect solely against storm surge risk.   1 August 2013
Alternative Risk Transfer
Capital market investors accessing the reinsurance sector through insurance linked securities (ILS) will have to accept a growing pool of new perils and ever more flexible terms and conditions if the market is to continue to grow at the pace it has in recent years.   31 July 2013
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Nephila Capital has appointed a new partner. Guy Swayne, who was previously an executive vice president and member of Flagstone Re's executive committee, will be based in Bermuda, and will focus primarily on risk origination, working with established and new counterparties seeking protection from natural catastrophe and weather exposures.   30 July 2013
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XL Group and private equity firm, Stone Point Capital, have formed a Bermuda-based company which will act as an investment manager in insurance-linked securities (ILS) and other reinsurance capital markets products.   26 July 2013
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Voting is now heating up in the second phase of Intelligent Insurer’s annual Global Awards Survey.   24 July 2013
Alternative Risk Transfer
Despite subdued issuance in the first quarter of the year, 2013 saw the second-largest first half of new cat bond issuance in history, according to Swiss Re.   22 July 2013

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