Archive for December, 2018

The gap in terms of fronting services for collateralised and ILS markets left by the acquisition of Tokio Millennium Re by Bermudian reinsurer RenaissanceRe is being filled we’re told, as the usual suspects look to take on any of that business they find attractive.

New funding from Germany through KfW is set to enhance the affordability and utility of parametric sovereign disaster risk transfer products offered through the CCRIF SPC (formerly named the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) to Caribbean and Central American countries.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 16th December 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 or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Cyber risk is increasingly showing signs of becoming a peak peril and as the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector continues to look for growth it makes sense to focus on these peak levels of the insurance and reinsurance risk tower, according to Joanna Syroka, Director of New Markets, Fermat Capital Management.

Global markets and Latin America focused asset manager BTG Pactual Asset Management has completed its acquisition of Lutece Re Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance linked investments manager.

The first long-range outlooks and forecasts for the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season both suggest an average level of storm activity, but note some uncertainty over whether an El Niño event occurs and how strong the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) trend is.

The number of deaths confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) from the ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo have now passed the trigger point for the World Bank’s pandemic catastrophe bond, but the outbreak still needs to spread internationally before a payout becomes due.

In the state of Florida the incidence of so-called assignment of benefits (AOB) lawsuits connected with property insurance claims have risen by more than 70% over the last five years and as this continues primary insurance rates are rising with them.

Bermuda-headquartered P&C legacy or run-off reinsurance specialist and founder of ILS Investment Management (ILSIM) Armour Group is seeking to put its expertise to work to help ILS funds or investors that have been hit by recent catastrophe losses.

The market expectation for the eventual insurance and reinsurance industry loss from the recent California wildfires already stands above $15 billion, but the $1.2 billion gross impact reported by primary insurer Allstate suggests that $20 billion may even be in sight.