Archive for January, 2018

London-headquartered ILS and reinsurance-linked investments manager Securis Investment Partners has made a number of organisational changes and promotions at senior levels. At the same time, Global Head of Origination Neil Strong has left the firm.

Health care benefits insurer Aetna has successfully completed its ninth capital markets backed reinsurance arrangement through a $200 million issuance of health insurance-linked securities (ILS), in the Vitality Re IX Ltd. (Series 2018-1) transaction.

Large primary insurance companies are expected to continue integrating insurance-linked securities (ILS) capacity into their risk transfer programs in 2018, as senior management increasingly appreciates the benefits of having access to third-party capital, according to reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter’s Cory Anger and Chi Hum.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance and transportation investment manager, Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., has signed an agreement that could see it acquiring a number of reinsurance company assets from the bankruptcy arrangements of Scottish Re Group.

According to the latest market data from capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) brokerage unit Willis Towers Watson Securities (WTWS), the amount of non-life ILS capital in reinsurance markets grew by a stunning 17% over the course of 2017, to reach $88 billion.

Artex, one of the largest insurance management firms and a key facilitator in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance space, is expanding its global platform with the launch of an office in Singapore and the creation of Artex Risk Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd.

The insurance and reinsurance industry loss estimate caused by October’s European extratropical cyclone Herwart has been raised slightly to EUR 255 million by catastrophe event claims data aggregator PERILS AG.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 28th January 2018, 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.

Global investment management group Aberdeen Asset Management, which has around $400 billion of assets under management and advisory, is still attracted to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance-linked investments space even after the major losses of 2017.

Walkers Corporate (Bermuda) Limited, a provider of corporate services and unit of the law firm of the same name, has joined the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) as a listing sponsor, with insurance-linked securities (ILS) such as catastrophe bonds just one of the instruments they expect to assist clients with.