Archive for June, 2018

Crosswinds Re, a total return strategy reinsurance vehicle established by Canadian asset manager Crosswinds Holdings Inc., is set to be dissolved along with the entire Crosswinds venture, as the reinsurer failed to find rates attractive enough at the renewals to underwrite any business.

Another private catastrophe bond offering from the Eclipse Re platform, which is operated by the Horseshoe Group and Rewire Securities LLC, has come to market, in the form of a $97.6 million Eclipse Re Ltd. (Series 2018-02A) transaction, for which the sponsor is currently unknown.

The impacts of two days of severe storms and large hail on the metro area of Denver, Colorado earlier this week will drive minimally hundreds of millions of dollars of insurance and reinsurance losses, as the number of claims reported is set to rise to at least 20,000, according to sources.

RenaissanceRe’s collateralized reinsurance sidecar like vehicle Fibonacci Reinsurance Ltd. has completed a new $125 million issuance of notes, in a Series 2018-2 transaction that will have brought investors and funds a new slice of the Bermudian reinsurers risk, in a format similar to a catastrophe bond.

Another Dodeka private catastrophe bond transaction has been completed by Twelve Capital Management, the Zurich headquartered insurance and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, with a $9.269 million Dodeka XV placed, becoming the seventeenth such ILS deal from the manager to-date.

Bermuda-based specialty insurance and reinsurance firm AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. has returned to the capital markets with a new Northshore Re II Ltd. (Series 2018-1) catastrophe bond, with which the company is seeking a multi-year source of multi-peril reinsurance and retrocession.

There are signs that the world’s largest reinsurance firm Munich Re is beginning to refocus and reposition itself, intending to concentrate on its core areas of expertise in risk management, risk transfer and risk bearing, alongside a newer developed focus on technology.

Collateralized reinsurance company Oxbridge Re Ltd. has now had its planned sidecar vehicle, Oxbridge Re NS Ltd., licensed for business in the Cayman Island’s and the sidecar has also issued its first tranche of notes.

Tony Belisle, the Chief Executive Officer of Markel CATCo Investment Management Ltd., has taken the number of shares he has recently acquired in his firms stock exchange listed retrocessional reinsurance ILS fund strategy to 2.5 million shares across all classes, with another two purchases made.

U.S. Coastal Insurance Company, a New York domiciled homeowners insurer that specialises in insuring coastal properties, was the sponsor of the recently completed $53.3 million Eclipse Re Ltd. (Series 2018-01A) private catastrophe bond, according to our sources.