Archive for November, 2020

ARX Holding, the Progressive-owned parent of American Strategic Insurance Group, has returned to the catastrophe bond market for the second time this year, to sponsor a $100 million or greater sized Bonanza Re Ltd. (Series 2020-2)  issuance.

Hudson Structured Capital Management, the investment manager with a reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focus, has exited one of its legacy, or run-off sector investments, as specialist Compre has been acquired by private equity firm Cinven and pension benefits investment manager the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), providing an exit opportunity.

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season comes to its official close today and two factors characterise what has been a record-setting season in many ways, the frequency of tropical storms and their rapid intensification, especially as they close in on landfall.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re continues to demonstrate its growing commitment to third-party sources of capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS), announcing this morning that it is launching a dedicated ILS fund, the Core Nat Cat Fund, so investors can participate in its natural catastrophe underwriting business.

A general shift in favour of per-occurrence structures has helped to insulate insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolios against some of the impacts of the record-setting 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Fabrice Rossary, the Chief Investment Officer of SCOR Investment Partners, has said.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market looks towards year-end and into the new year, investors are showing appetite for structures and strategies from across the ILS and broader insurance and reinsurance universe, according to Stephan Ruoff, Head of Schroder Secquaero.

We’ve developed a new chart with which you can analyse catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance by type of transaction and year. We hope you find it a useful new feature.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 29th November 2020, 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.

Some insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds that invest in collateralised reinsurance contracts have been setting reserves for potential exposure to business interruption losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a handful of the major European catastrophe reinsurance programs, we understand.

A forecast for Australian bushfire risk for the summer months of December 2020 through February 2021 suggests that forested areas could see normal levels of risk, while higher-risk is seen for grassland or crop growing areas of the south and in particular south east of the country.