{"id":43557,"date":"2014-08-15T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T12:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43557"},"modified":"2014-08-15T08:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T12:45:30","slug":"sp-warns-hedge-fund-reinsurer-model-consumes-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2014\/sp-warns-hedge-fund-reinsurer-model-consumes-capital.html","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P warns hedge-fund reinsurer model consumes capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Gazette &#8211; Standard and Poor\u2019s (S&amp;P) said yesterday that the hedge fund reinsurers philosophy of running a higher risk portfolio in order to underwrite at lower rates could be flawed.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that hedge-fund reinsurers will earn higher investment returns than a typical reinsurer running a low-risk asset portfolio, with the result that they can compete by underwriting at lower rates, is flawed because hedge fund reinsurers need to allocate more capital as a buffer against the greater investment risk, thus offsetting the benefit of the extra return, the rating agency argued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\/article\/20140812\/BUSINESS04\/140819948\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Gazette &#8211; Standard and Poor\u2019s (S&amp;P) said yesterday that the hedge fund reinsurers philosophy of running a higher risk portfolio in order to underwrite at lower rates could be flawed. The idea that hedge-fund reinsurers will earn higher investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43557","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=43557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43560,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43557\/revisions\/43560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}