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While challenges around capital consumption and the potential for overlap on the P&C side are clear, for investors, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class represents a great opportunity to complement other private market solutions, according to industry experts.

Fosun International Limited has now completed its acquisition of the remaining 80% of Ironshore that it did not already own, helping it to grow its footprint in insurance and reinsurance, as it becomes a more insurance-oriented investment group.

Fosun International Limited is taking steps to increase the contribution of insurance and reinsurance to its business, bidding to buy the rest of re/insurer Ironshore as it seeks to become an insurance-oriented investment group.

Private-owned global investment and asset management conglomerate, Fosun International Limited’s adoption of Warren Buffett’s reinsurance and investment model is proving to be a success, as the China-based organisation eyes further acquisitions.

Warren Buffett’s much-anticipated 50th anniversary letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors was published on Saturday and the ‘Sage of Omaha’ explained that insurance and reinsurance has been “the engine” that propelled the firm’s expansion.

Today saw the publication of one of the most interesting shareholder letters of the year, high-profile investor Warren Buffett’s letter to shareholders in his diversified investments, insurance and reinsurance firm Berkshire Hathaway.

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, […]

Last June we wrote about the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS), the public body that organises, manages and invests the retirement funds of public school employees in Pennsylvania, and their first allocation of capital to the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities asset class. They allocated $250m into the Palmetto Fund, an insurance-linked securities […]

Most insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond investors are holding onto their portfolio positions as they wait to see what the fourth quarter will bring in the way of new opportunities to deploy capital, say investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly fund managers report.

Despite a fairly volatile month of trading in the secondary catastrophe bond market during August, market prices continue to reflect strong investor interest in the asset class according to investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly fund managers report. They say that secondary cat bond trading was slow at the start of the month […]