insurance linked securities fund

German reinsurer Hannover Re, the anchor investor in the Leine Investment SICAV-SIF Insurance-Linked Securities Sub-Fund 1, told us that currently only about 25% of its seed capital has been deployed by the fund.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management operation backed by German reinsurer Hannover Re is now up and running and open to investors. Luxembourg based asset management firm Leine Investment SICAV-SIF and managing partner Leine Investment General Partner S.à r.l. were established last year as 100% subsidiaries of Hannover Re with the aim of launching ILS funds […]

A trend which we’ve been writing about for a number of years here on Artemis, is the increasing number of reinsurers getting involved in the management of third-party investor capital in insurance, reinsurance and catastrophe-linked investment funds. The fully-collateralized reinsurance space has been on the up in recent years, but two of the world’s largest […]

There’s a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund emerging on the scene thanks to a seed investment from German reinsurer Hannover Re. Hannover Re has had an internal ILS fund, which they have been successfully running since 2008, targeting a diversified portfolio of low-risk catastrophe bonds for their own benefits. Now they are turning what was […]

Yesterday we wrote about Aon Benfield Securities latest annual insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market report, which shows that in the twelve months to 30th June 2012 the ILS market has experienced a stellar year of performance. As usual we will highlight some interesting points from the report over the coming days, the first of […]

This year has been much harder than normal for the managers of cat bond funds and insurance-linked securities funds. More used to giving their investors great, non-correlated returns on a regular, monthly basis, cat bond funds have had to get used to monthly declines and a pattern of negative returns over the course of 2011.