Archive for April, 2019

StarStone, the specialty underwriting business owned by insurance and reinsurance group Enstar and investors Stone Point and Dowling Capital Partners, has named industry veterans Ed Noonan and Dick Sanford to key leadership positions.

Today we’re delighted to announce the first wave of speakers who will be joining us at ILS Asia 2019, our fourth conference in Singapore. Tickets are available now for this insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference.

Speciality California-based catastrophe exposed property insurer Palomar Insurance Holdings has raised its target for an impending Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO), hoping to raise as much as $110 million at the top-end of its share price estimates.

TigerRisk Partners LLC, the global reinsurance broker, risk and capital advisory, is aiming to further expand its business on the U.S. West Coast with the hiring of Kevin Feldman as Partner, who was previously a Guy Carpenter Managing Director.

Even though large catastrophe losses were under the long-term average for the first-quarter, there is a chance that insurance and reinsurance firms have their Q1 results dented anyway, due to an expectation of higher attritional weather claims, impacts from a number of man-made loss events and ongoing loss creep.

The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season is expected to deliver very slightly below long-term average levels of tropical storm activity, according to industry supported researcher Tropical Storm Risk (TSR).

Investments with insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers Credit Suisse Insurance-Linked Strategies, Elementum Advisors and Fermat Capital Management all delivered positive returns in 2018, despite catastrophe events.

Indicative pricing for certain types of industry-loss warranty (ILW) backed retrocessional reinsurance protection has been on the rise, with Florida wind and as a result U.S. all natural perils seeing the largest increases of in advance of the mid-year renewals.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 7th April 2019, 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.

Program and fronting service specialist, Spinnaker Insurance Company, expects further organic growth as it continues to scale its operations with the support of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, according to General Counsel, Nicholas Scott and Senior Vice President (SVP), Adam Tyburski.