Archive for February, 2015

The World Bank continues to aid in the fight against severe weather and climate change’s impact on developing regions of the globe, with the announcement of a new partnership with AXA Corporate Solutions on parametric weather insurance.

When much of the coverage of ILS discusses lower returns of ILS and catastrophe bond investments, Bermuda-based asset manager ILS Capital Management Ltd. provides an example of just how attractive insurance-linked investments can be with a 19.7% post-fees return in 2014.

A new company called Huang & Associates Analytics Ltd. (HAA) has been established to focus on meeting the growing insurance-linked securities (ILS) market’s demand for risk analytics solutions and advisory services.

Once again, the last week has seen an increasing focus on higher yielding catastrophe bond notes in the secondary trading market, as investors seek to maximise their returns with any opportunities to buy notes that yield above the average of recent new issuance.

A pioneering tool that offers a detailed view of global potential tsunami events was recently announced by leading catastrophe risk modelling firm, Risk Management Solutions (RMS).

Entropics Asset Management AB, the first insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond fund manager to be established in Scandinavia, has officially opened its SEF Entropics Cat Bond Fund today, with over £8m of investment from Movestic, part of the Chesnara Group.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 15th February 2015, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing  subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates.

Two UCITS catastrophe bond investment funds have been cited as among the top performing UCITS credit strategies of 2014, at a time when investors searching for fixed income and credit allocation options have been struggling.

Bermuda-based hedge fund strategy reinsurer Third Point Reinsurance, which is backed by hedge fund manager Dan Loeb’s Third Point LLC, is not among the reinsurers looking for scale though a merger or acquisition process at the moment.

Staying relevant is a running theme and constant topic of discussion in the currently challenging reinsurance market, but relevance isn’t just about market capital and scale, according to Lancashire Group’s senior executives.