Insurance Linked Investments

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered global reinsurance company, had lifted the amount of assets managed within its third-party capital, joint venture and managed insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund vehicles to $6.9 billion by October 2020, with these structures now getting close to equalling the reinsurers own capital base.

Mars Incorporated, the American company which is one of the largest globally active and multinational manufacturers of food products, confectionery and pet food, has said that alternative capital is attractive to the firm as a potential backer for its captive, whole parametric risk transfer is seen as a “fantastic” risk management tool.

Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, part of the Gallagher group, successfully brokered $140 million of traditional mortgage reinsurance for Arch Capital during 2020, as part of the firms Bellemeade Re mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) program.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has entered 2021 with a positive outlook, as ILS investment yields have moved to some of the most attractive levels seen in almost a decade, according to Stephan Ruoff, Head of Schroder Secquaero.

A shift towards underwriting more reinsurance business on a quota share basis could matter more for the forward-profits of many large reinsurers in 2021, than the lower-than hoped for rate increases in excess-of-loss treaty pricing, analysts at Barclays said in a report yesterday.

Nephila Climate, the climate solutions are of ILS fund manager Nephila Capital, and the Capital Solutions unit of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), have again come together to provide a risk transfer solution to support a renewable energy project construction financing.

Stone Ridge Asset Management’s mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund assets fell again in the last quarter of record, sliding just under 6% to end October 2020 with $3.82 billion of ILS assets across the two fund strategies.

Vesttoo, a technology firm that uses proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions with the goal of helping companies assess and transfer risks to the capital markets, has taken an investment from a fund focused on the longevity economy.

Kairos Acquisition Corp., the new insurance, reinsurance and insurtech focused Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC), or blank check company, that Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. is behind, has increased the size of its initial public offering by 20% to raise $240 million.

Close to US $20 billion of new capital was raised by the global reinsurance market and new start-up entrants in 2020 and there is more to come in 2021, as the need for capital persists, according to David Flandro of HX Analytics.