{"id":23923,"date":"2011-08-08T04:38:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T08:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23923"},"modified":"2011-08-08T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T13:20:40","slug":"hedge-fund-company-swiss-re-protects-itself-with-180-million-against-market-deterioration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/hedge-fund-company-swiss-re-protects-itself-with-180-million-against-market-deterioration.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Investors Protect Themselves With $180 Million Against Market Deterioration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/April-Calendar-Header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23924\" title=\"hedging\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/April-Calendar-Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/April-Calendar-Header.jpg 278w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/April-Calendar-Header-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Swiss Re has announced the successful transfer of $180 million of extreme mortality risk to the capital markets. Swiss Re has a history of obtaining over $2.0 billion in extreme mortality risk protection.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Swiss Re has entered into a transaction with VITA Capital IV Ltd. (\u201cVita IV\u201d) , under which it may receive up to $100 million and up to $80 million, respectively, in the event of extreme mortality in any part of a pre-defined coverage area. Vita IV, in turn, has issued Series V and VI notes to the capital markets. Since its launch in 2009, Vita IV has been used to transfer nearly USD 500 million of mortality risk to the capital markets.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest takedown from the Vita IV programme is a continuation of Swiss Re\u2019s hedging strategy, enabling the company to manage extreme mortality exposures  in a capital-efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the life ILS market is approaching a tipping point which will lead to robust growth, for both issuers and investors,\u201d Swiss Re&#8217;s Division Head, Life &amp; Health, Alison Mckie, said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Swiss Re has announced the successful transfer of $180 million of extreme mortality risk to the capital markets. Swiss Re has a history of obtaining over $2.0 billion in extreme mortality risk protection. &#8220;Swiss Re has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-launches","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23923"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23927,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23923\/revisions\/23927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}