Insurance Linked Investments

The UK Supreme Court has found largely in favour of insurance policyholders in the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s business interruption insurance test case appeals.

Reinsurance and also retrocessional exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic may rise if the final judgement in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s business interruption insurance test case goes against the industry.

Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management and collateralised reinsurance underwriter, has announced the launch of a new higher risk investment strategy that will have a retrocession focus.

For Lloyd’s, it’s important to “learn how to walk” first, as it gets up to speed with the new route for channelling investor funds to members of the market through its now approved multi-arrangement UK Insurance Special Purpose Vehicle (iSPV) before thinking about expanding the structures remit, according to CFO Burkhard Keese.

The approval and launch of Lloyd’s of London’s first insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure under the UK ILS regulations that came into force in late 2017 “reaffirms the ILS potential of the London Market”, according to Horseshoe CEO Andre Perez.

Lloyd’s has this morning announced that it has finally received all necessary approvals from regulators to set up its new multi Insurance Special Purpose Vehicle (mISPV), which is named London Bridge Risk PCC Ltd.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered specialty re/insurer and third-party reinsurance capital manager, has pre-announced an expected $345 million of losses from natural catastrophes and COVID-19 suffered during the fourth-quarter of 2020.

Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management and collateralised reinsurance underwriter, has announced the hiring of Todor Todorov, who most recently worked at Willis Towers Watson in its Investment Manager Research team.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., the insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance- and transportation- focused investment manager, has announced a key hire as Adrian Jones, formerly of SCOR, joins the firm.

Munich Re has now completed the usual two tranche issuance for the renewal of its fully collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle Eden Re II Ltd., with the amount of capital backing the sidecar for 2021 down some 18% at $235 million.