Archive for April, 2020

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the alternative risk premia focused mutual fund manager that has specific reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies, significantly expanded its allocations of capital to Lloyd’s of London syndicates in 2018 with its investments deployed into business amounting to almost $250 million of gross premiums.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management business of Elementum Advisors, LLC is “in good shape” despite the global Covid-19 pandemic, according to its key investor White Mountains.

Peak Reinsurance Company Limited (Peak Re), the Hong Kong headquartered, Fosun backed global reinsurer, aims to become the Asian leader in insurance-linked securities (ILS) with its acquisition of Lutece, while also benefiting from a new foothold in the Bermuda market, CEO Franz Josef Hahn explained to Artemis.

While the average return of insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bond and reinsurance linked investment funds was 0.3% in February 2020, some cat bond funds became early victims of the coronavirus pandemic and suffered a decline due to the devaluation of the World Bank’s pandemic bonds.

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the listed retrocession focused investment fund strategy managed by Markel CATCo Investment Management, is set to buy-back almost $30 million of shares in a first compulsory purchase and the purchase is being made at NAV, which is well-above the current listed share prices for the fund.

Silent pandemic risk as akin to silent cyber. It’s an exposure that is potentially secreted deep inside numerous lines of insurance and reinsurance business, with claims governed by contractual fineries and wordings. As a result it’s an exposure that is hard to quantify, but that may require hedging.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season could see activity levels that are around 25% above the long-term norm, according to Tropical Storm Risk which has increased its forecast number of storms and hurricanes in its latest update.

Global Atlantic Financial Group Limited, a leading United States life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company, has launched an intriguing co-investment vehicle named Ivy, which will operate as a kind of sidecar structure and is funded with $1 billion to invest in life and annuity reinsurance deals.

The ongoing legal action to force pandemic business interruption and shutdown claims from the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak into property or catastrophe insurance and reinsurance programs may be tempered by an appreciation that this would significantly impact the global re/insurance market, A.M. Best believes.

Insurance and reinsurance companies need to adapt to a “dynamic risk landscape” to incorporate socio-economic factors, climate change research and risk mitigation in their modelling, in order to keep weather risks insurable, Swiss Re warned today.