Insurance Linked Investments

In the last quarter of record, Nephila Capital unlocked some side pocketed capital and this caused an increase in insurance-linked securities (ILS) revenues reported by parent Markel, while premiums ceded to Nephila’s reinsurers are on the rise, even as assets under management declined further.

Bermuda based reinsurance firm and third-party capital management specialist RenaissanceRe saw the fee income earned through its Capital Partners joint-ventures and ILS funds soar in the third-quarter, as management fees rose on the back of higher assets, while performance fees roared back in the period.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurance and third-party capital management specialist, has now completed its acquisition of the Validus reinsurance business from AIG, including the insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit AlphaCat.

Tenax Capital, the London based hedge fund investment manager that operates a catastrophe bond strategy, has joined the insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry working-group that focuses on enhancing environmental, social and governance (ESG) transparency in the ILS market.

Bermuda headquartered re/insurer Arch Capital has now successfully closed its latest mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance, securing the targeted roughly $186.6 million of coverage from the Bellemeade Re 2023-1 Ltd. issuance, while adding $46 million in direct reinsurance to take the total protection to just over $233 million.

As inflation uncertainty persists and the negative stock-bond correlation of the past two decades continues to shift, investor focus has again turned to the fact traditional diversification between asset classes is not working as well, according to Twelve Capital.

Speaking at the 19th Singapore International Reinsurance Conference yesterday, Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), explained that insurance-linked securities (ILS) are a critical tool that can unlock capacity for the sizeable protection gaps that exist in Asia.

With the collateral yield of catastrophe bonds at an all-time high and the insurance spread component at a 12-year high, it’s an extremely attractive time for the market, according to specialist asset manager, Plenum Investments.

London Innovation Underwriters, the entity established by listed special purpose acquisition company Financials Acquisition Corp, which was launched in 2022 by sector executives William Allen and Andrew Rear, has lowered its targeted equity raise to up to £300 million, to fund its strategy to access the returns of Lloyd’s underwriting via the London Bridge 2 […]

Underscoring the potential impacts of climate change on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, analysts at global asset management group Schroders have suggested the effects “should be marginal” given climate change is gradual and long-term in nature, while ILS instruments typically have a term of one to three years.