Insurance Linked Investments

A newly developed set of catastrophe bond fund indices from Swiss asset manager Plenum Investments clearly shows how, in general, cat bond funds and returns have recovered back to June levels, so gaining back most of the value that had been lost due to high selling-pressure in the marketplace.

One of the top priorities in 2022 so far for insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets and those structuring ILS instruments such as catastrophe bonds has been a focus on inflation, as the market endeavours to adjust offerings to account for it, according to Swiss Re Capital Markets.

Reask, a catastrophe modelling, climate analytics and data company that uses machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence, has announced the hire of former Twelve Capital executive Jamie Rodney as its new CEO, adding significant reinsurance capital and ILS market experience.

There is growing optimism in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market over the potential for subrogation claims against ERCOT related to February 2021 winter storm and Texas freeze losses to reduce exposure to the event, according to AM Best.

TigerRisk, the broking group and reinsurance and risk capital advisor, has hired Mitchell Rosenberg from Aon Securities as a Partner and Managing Director in its investment banking division, TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory (TCMA).

Bermuda headquartered global reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe continued to expand its underwriting in the second-quarter of the year, which provided it an opportunity to share more risk with some of its third-party capital partners.

Gallagher Re, the global reinsurance broker, has made a new senior appointment in its capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit, Gallagher Securities, hiring Alexandre Delacroix from Natixis for an EMEA focused capital markets and ILS role.

Mortgage insurance companies operating in the United States are in a far better financial position now thanks to heavy use of reinsurance, including their issuance of mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS), or mortgage insurance-linked notes (ILN), Moody’s Investors Service has said.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused insurtech company Vesttoo has hired its first Head of Underwriting, selecting a respected executive from its local market in Israel to fill the role.

Reinsurance companies in the Asia Pacific region can leverage insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative capital to capture hardening market opportunities and become more competitive with their global peers, rating agency AM Best has advised.