4 August 2014Alternative Risk Transfer

A watershed for ILS

While many market practitioners may have played down the significance of a cat bond issued by the world’s largest reinsurer being pulled, make no mistake about it, this represents an important moment for the development of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets.

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