Insurance Linked Investments

The World Bank announced a significant expansion of the use of catastrophe bonds, reinsurance and instruments such as parametric risk transfer for countries exposed to large-scale disasters, with an ambition to embed catastrophe insurance and risk transfer instruments more deeply into its financing operations.

Aon established a $197 million reserve for legal settlement expenses related to the letter of credit (LOC) fraud at insurtech Vesttoo as an attempt to strategically draw a line under the issue, Eric Andersen, President of Aon plc said today, also highlighting that meaningful recoveries are expected to be made to reduce the overall cost […]

Broking giant Aon has recognised a significant legal settlement expense reserve amounting to $197 million related to the Vesttoo fraud scandal in its fourth-quarter of 2023 results.

Nephila Capital had a “fantastic” year in 2023, according to Jeremy Noble, President of Insurance at Markel, who said that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit “demonstrated itself as a market leader” and is well-positioned going forwards.

The RenaissanceRe Capital Partners vehicles, which are the range of third-party investor capitalised balance-sheets, reinsurance joint-ventures and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds operated by the company, do not really need any more capital, the firm’s CEO Kevin O’Donnell said yesterday.

Having reported one quarter ago that it recognised a $25 million credit loss against a fraudulent $50 million letter of credit (LOC) for reinsurance provided by insurtech Vesttoo, Markel Group has now increased the credit loss related to Vesttoo collateral to $65 million.

Aon has filed a motion calling for the New York state lawsuit that fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance filed against it, in relation to the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by insurtech Vesttoo, to be dismissed in its entirety.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has increased its activities with third-party investors in 2023, ceding 17% more in reinsurance premiums to them, than it had in the prior year.

In reporting its full-year 2023 results, Markel Group has highlighted higher insurance-linked securities (ILS) revenues from the managed ILS funds of its Nephila Capital unit, while program premiums ceded to Nephila reinsurance structures have soared.

Insurance giant AIG made good on its promise to invest into some of the third-party capital backed reinsurance joint-venture vehicles operated by RenaissanceRe at the start of 2024, with a $350 million deployment to two structures.