Chris Westfall

Christopher Westfall is a career journalist, covering finance across multiple sectors including insurance, banking and asset management.

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Aug 15, 2012

Reinsurers Endurance Speciality, Axis Capital and XL Group saw big swings in sentiment in the period ending June 30 as

Aug 14, 2012

Combine Re — at $200 million catastrophe bond hailed by market participants for its unique way of blending issuers and risks

Aug 14, 2012

A series of severe thunderstorms and a possible “derecho” event caused over $400 million in insured losses for Ohio, making

Jul 27, 2012

“Perceptions of immorality” tied to catastrophe bonds and other insurance linked securities (ILS) may be forcing issuers to pay investors

Jul 25, 2012

While insurance-linked securities are often marketed for their “non-correlation” to credit and equity markets, ILS would not be spared losses

Jul 24, 2012

A weekend storm system fueled by Typhoon Vicente that has already caused over $1.5 billion in economic losses around