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Hedge Funds Reinsurance

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Interval Alts and Insurance-Linked Securities

We are seeing Interval Alts (registered investment funds featuring hedge fund-like liquidity) being used for dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies. ILS, such as catastrophe, or "cat," bonds, provide...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

U.S. PFIC Taxation Exemption to be Narrowed?

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The last 15 years have seen the advent of a new reinsurance platform, where hedge funds have sponsored non-U.S. reinsurers, who in turn invest their capital in the sponsoring hedge funds. While there are business rationales...more

BakerHostetler

The IRS Turns Up the Heat on Hedge Fund-Backed Reinsurance

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After years of inaction, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is throwing up obstacles to enjoying the tax advantages of hedge fund-backed reinsurance. On April 24, 2015, the IRS issued a notice of proposed rulemaking titled...more

Carlton Fields

IRS Proposes Regulations Directed To “Passive” Hedge Fund Foreign Insurance Entities

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On April 24, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations directed to “situations in which a hedge fund establishes a purported foreign reinsurance company in order to defer and reduce the tax that otherwise would...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

NAIC Report: 2014 Spring National Meeting

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) met for its Spring National Meeting in Orlando, Florida from March 29 through April 1. Typical for the first national meeting of the year, much activity was focused...more

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