reinsurance-linked fund

ILS Diversified Ltd., a fund-of-funds strategy which invests in an actively selected range of insurance and reinsurance linked investments funds, has seen impressive performance in 2015 to-date, outperforming its benchmark Index and demonstrating the benefits of the strategy.

CATCo Investment Management, the Bermuda-domiciled reinsurance and retrocessional reinsurance linked investment manager, has hired ex-Aspen reinsurance executive Ly Lam as the firm’s new Chief Operating Officer.

The first rating criteria has been published that specifically targets insurance-linked funds, including those investing in catastrophe bonds, ILS and collateralized reinsurance, by rating agency A.M. Best.

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of CATCo Investment Management Ltd. Jason Bibb has resigned with immediate effect following a decision to relocate back to the UK from Bermuda.

Rating agency A.M. Best has published and is seeking comments on a new draft rating criteria which we believe to be the first to specifically target insurance-linked funds, including those investing in catastrophe bonds, ILS and collateralized reinsurance.

ILS Diversified Ltd., a fund-of-funds which invests in the insurance and reinsurance linked investments market via allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has outperformed the wider ILS fund market in its first month of operation.

ILS Diversified Ltd. the first fund-of-funds in the insurance linked investments market solely investing in insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds to achieve a return more in-line with the market is being launched on April 1st by ILS Advisers.

The growth of convergence reinsurance capacity, largely third-party investor backed, has seen strong growth over recent years. According to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, alternative reinsurance capacity has grown from just 8% of the global property catastrophe reinsurance market at the end of 2008 and looks set to reach 15% by the end of this year.

There’s been a lot of coverage on the threat non-traditional reinsurance capacity from third-party investor backed sources such as insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance capacity and sidecars presents to traditional reinsurers. It’s refreshing today to read a press release from reinsurance broker Willis Re discussing an opportunity this trend presents to mutual insurers which […]

Non-traditional reinsurance capacity, largely sourced from third-party institutional and capital market investors and recently increased to $44 billion in size, is exerting increasing influence on the global property catastrophe reinsurance market. That’s a statement that we can all agree on now that we’ve seen growing evidence from catastrophe bond and ILS pricing and the recent April […]