Archive for November, 2023

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending November 12th 2023, 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.

There are now only three months left to go until our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS NYC 2024 will be held in New York City on February 9th 2024, with around 400 attendees from the ILS community expected to come together for a day of thought-leadership, discussion and valuable networking.

Investors in mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies operated by Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based asset manager with an alternative risk premia focus, will be delighted so far in 2023, as returns accelerate and reach over 40% year-to-date in the Stone Ridge interval ILS fund strategy.

AXA XL, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance unit of the AXA Group, is back in the catastrophe bond market for the first time since late 2019, seeking $250 million or more in protection with a new Galileo Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) issuance, that features a reduced range of perils to its recent deals and […]

Vesttoo, the insurtech at the centre of an international reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud investigation, is set to remain in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after the court denied a motion from the US Trustee to convert the case to Chapter 7 so a liquidation could be accelerated.

German insurance giant Allianz has this morning reported that its Property-Casualty business segment was hit with 7.3 percentage points of natural catastrophe losses on the combined ratio for the third-quarter, which is the highest such figure in a decade.

France headquartered global reinsurer SCOR intends to take advantage of the hard reinsurance market conditions at the January 2024 renewals, to continue growing its book at what are seen as attractive margins, the firms CEO Thierry Léger said today.

During the third-quarter of 2023, US headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation continued to expand the subject business funded by its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle, ceding additional premium to the structure.

Ardonagh Specialty has appointed Jonathan Marsh as its new Deputy CEO of Bermuda and also the Global Head of Retro broking at dedicated reinsurance arm Inver Re.

A special legislative session of the Florida House this week saw any measures of particular relevance to the property insurance market taken off the agenda, while a measure that proposes another layer of reinsurance to support the Floridian carriers may now re-emerge for debate in 2024.