Archive for September, 2023

Nascent Group, the insurance management and reinsurance transformer company launched by industry stalwart Andre Perez that aims to reimagine the insurance-linked securities (ILS) servicing space, has agreed its first acquisition with Bermuda Compliance Consultants Ltd.

Tower Limited, the New Zealand based insurance company, has successfully renewed its reinsurance program with what it terms only “moderate” increases to pricing and attachment points, despite having made recoveries in the last year.

Howden Tiger, the reinsurance broking and risk capital management arm of Howden, has reshuffled its top leadership, naming Tim Ronda as its new CEO from January 1 2024.

Asset manager Amundi US continued to grow its more recently launched Pioneer Cat Bond Fund strategy in the last quarter of record, with catastrophe bonds seemingly remaining the easiest strategy to raise money for, as its more reinsurance focused Pioneer ILS Interval Fund shrank a little further, albeit at a much slower rate than before.

Descartes Underwriting, the parametric insurance and data-driven risk transfer specialist managing general agency (MGA), has named former Chief of Staff Marlène Luce to take on the new role of Head of Strategy & New Business, as leader of a newly formed department.

Speaking with Artemis in a recent interview, Christian Mumenthaler, the CEO of global reinsurer Swiss Re explained that he believes in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) system and sees this alternative form of reinsurance capital as occupying a critical position in the marketplace.

The judge in Vesttoo’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has called for all sides to “stop litigating and start cooperating” to find a common ground on key issues that have been holding back progress at a hearing yesterday.

Catastrophe bonds offer investors a “positive outlier” in the world of alternative investments for 2024, according to global asset manager Columbia Threadneedle.

Insured losses from severe convective storms (SCS) in the United States have continued to escalate through the third-quarter of the year, with the annual total for 2023 now reaching a record $50 billion, the first time this peril has ever caused this level of loss for the industry, Gallagher Re’s Steve Bowen has explained.

Demand for cyber insurance and reinsurance is expected to continue to grow in the years ahead, but with carriers seemingly at the maximum of what cyber risk they can assume, transferring some of it to the capital markets will be crucial to achieve exponential growth, according to industry experts.