reinsurance-linked fund

Two days ago we wrote about the latest report from reinsurance intermediary Guy Carpenter in which the broker looked at the April renewals and commented on trends which are emerging within the global reinsurance marketplace. One of the trends receiving attention is the growing influence of third-party reinsurance capital and Guy Carpenter said that the […]

The latest global reinsurance broker to publish an April reinsurance market renewals report containing bullish statements about the growing influence of third-party reinsurance capital on the wider marketplace is Guy Carpenter. In its press release, published this morning, Guy Carpenter reports that ample reinsurance capacity, assisted by continued convergence of traditional and alternative capital sources […]

Reinsurance companies ability to attract and deploy third-party capital is becoming increasingly important, according to reinsurance broker Aon Benfield. The broker has today published its latest Aon Benfield Aggregate (ABA) report, which analyses the financial results of the world’s leading reinsurers in 2012, and in the report discusses the increasing importance for firms to be […]

The latest reinsurance market renewals report from broker Aon Benfield has been published and it’s no surprise to see pricing in the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond markets getting a mention. Aon Benfield said that clients renewing significant capacity in the ILS markets have experienced risk adjusted price decreases of 25% to 70% for U.S. […]

Some traditional reinsurers now see the emerging reinsurance business model of ‘fast capital’, or the flow of capital into the reinsurance market from third-party investor sources, as a direct threat to their existing portfolios, according to the latest renewals report from reinsurance broker Willis Re. The report notes a jump in the amount of capital […]

Third-party investor capitals increasing interest and growing influence in the insurance and reinsurance markets is something that insurers and reinsurers are going to have to get used to as a ‘new normal’, according to the Chairman of ACE European Group, Andrew Kendrick. Kendrick spoke on the topic of ‘Managing the new normal – sustainable underwriting’ […]

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 […]