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The Florida Cabinet’s State Board of Administration and Governor Scott have now approved the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) to buy $1 billion of private reinsurance coverage, from a combination of traditional and collateralized reinsurance.

The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) is getting closer to accessing the private reinsurance and risk transfer markets for the first time, as it seeks to better protect itself and take advantage of near-record low reinsurance rates for Florida property catastrophe risks.

The Florida Cabinet and Governor Scott have just approved the CEO of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) to go to the private reinsurance and capital markets to establish options and pricing for up to $2.2 billion of risk transfer.

The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF), the state’s backstop reinsurance fund for private insurers, is once again seeking approval from the Cabinet to tap the private reinsurance markets for up to $2.2 billion of protection.

Independent asset management group GAM Holdings announced its first-half results today, reporting net new money inflows of approx $1.43 billion and 5% growth in assets over the period, with its catastrophe bond fund strategies contributing strongly.

Hedge fund data and performance information provider, Eurekahedge, and Asia based insurance-linked investments advisers, ILS Advisers, have launched a USD hedged version of their index which tracks the performance of insurance-linked investment funds.

Here’s an interesting side-story on Sandy where a U.S. state schools pension fund was in the path of hurricane Sandy, Pennsylvania was a state impacted by the storm, and now also faces a potential impairment to their investment portfolio because they have invested in a reinsurance-linked investment fund. The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, […]

Investment manager GAM have announced that they are going to be operating a waiting list on new subscriptions to their GAM Star Cat Bond fund due to capacity constraints in the sector. The UCITS-compliant fund which launched in Q4 last year has apparently been seeing strong investor demand and it seems that this demand has […]

At the end of April we wrote about the upcoming launch of a new insurance-linked securities fund which was being launched by Dexion Capital as a closed-end investment company and would be listed on the London Stock Exchange. DCG Iris Limited has been actively fund-raising since the start of May to attract capital to its […]

Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd., a mutual insurance company who specialise in providing insurance for electrical utilities, have increased their investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (specifically catastrophe bonds) through ILS investment manager Anchor Risk Advisors. Nuclear Electric Insurance were one of Anchor’s initial investors and by growing their allocation to the sector are showing their commitment […]