Archive for January, 2021

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda-based globally-active insurance and reinsurance company, has reported a net loss for the fourth-quarter and full-year 2020, as improved underlying accident year combined ratios couldn’t offset significant catastrophe and COVID-19 losses.

Some shareholders in the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., Markel CATCo Investment Management’s listed retrocession focused investment fund, have benefited from a reduction in claims related to California’s 2017 wildfires, perhaps suggesting a subrogation recovery has made its way through to the portfolio.

The Gildenbrook Group has been founded by experienced ILS industry executive Daniel Brookman and has today launched Gildenbrook Capital Management Ltd., an independent alternative investment fund manager focused on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class.

Hurricane impacts to the State of Louisiana during the record-breaking 2020 season are estimated to have driven $7.7 billion of insurance and reinsurance market losses.

Aon and Willis Towers Watson have jointly announced the leadership team of the company that will emerge once its proposed combination is completed and the plan laid out perhaps suggests that the pair have no intention to offload the Willis Re reinsurance arm.

Mexico’s still in-force $485 million IBRD / FONDEN 2020  catastrophe bond will continue to provide the country with important disaster insurance protection, as the beneficiary of the cover has been shifted away from the shuttered FONDEN disaster fund to the country’s Treasury.

In launching its first collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle and engaging with third-party investors on the recently announced Lifson Re Ltd. launch transaction, Rob Berkley – President and CEO of W. R. Berkley noted the importance of a “shared sense of obligation and duty to capital.”

Global insurance and reinsurance market catastrophe losses came in some 16% below the long-term average, but there could still be implications for aggregate contracts, as frequent smaller events occurred, according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.

Jamaica continues to work with the World Bank on a first catastrophe bond for the country the Finance Ministry has said and reflecting the importance of disaster risk financing, in recent weeks it has received a roughly $3.5 million payout under its parametric CCRIF insurance coverage.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda-based reinsurance firm and third-party capital management specialist, has revealed that it raised an additional over $730 million of capital for third-party managed joint ventures and insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicles at January 1st 2020.