Archive for December, 2018

The estimated total insurable loss for the recent cyber hack attack and resulting data breach of one of the Marriott hotel chain’s reservation systems will be between $200 million to as much as $600 million, according to AIR.

Markel CATCo Investment Management Ltd., the retrocessional reinsurance investment specialist, has announced further reserve setting and strengthening related to catastrophe loss events that occurred in 2018 and are expected to hit its listed retro fund portfolio.

Dutch pension fund manager PGGM has partnered with Bermudian reinsurer and third-party capital manager RenaissanceRe on a new risk-remote rated property catastrophe reinsurance vehicle named Vermeer Reinsurance Ltd.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has estimated that natural catastrophes and man-made disasters will cost the insurance industry around $79 billion in 2018, the fourth highest annual industry loss on its sigma records.

The islands of the Bahamas are to benefit from a $100 million contingent loan arrangement from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will provide a source of liquidity after natural disasters and feature parametric triggers to activate loan disbursements.

Dutch pension fund manager PGGM has completed its first issuance of notes from its Leo Re Ltd. collateralised reinsurance sidecar for 2019, with a $20 million Series 2019-1 Class A tranche of notes issued which feature property catastrophe risk sourced from Munich Re.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) capacity is helping to fill the disaster gap left by the traditional insurance and reinsurance industry, with dynamics set for “substantial ILS market growth” in the future, according to John Seo, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fermat Capital.

Lower risk and volatility insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance funds have fared surprisingly well in the face of the aggregated impact of 2017 and 2018 catastrophe losses, positioning some to take advantage of investor appetite.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) cells established in Guernsey will benefit from formalised collateral rollover provisions, including confirmation of a 30-day grace period at the start of a transaction where an ILS cell would not be considered in breach of its fully-funded requirements.

Both of the rated reinsurance vehicles that are managed by and backed by capital from the Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd. team have had their ratings affirmed by A.M. Best, despite suffering losses from the catastrophe activity through 2018.