Insurance Linked Investments

More information is set to be revealed about the ambitions of the UK to attract some form of insurance-linked securities (ILS) business to London this week, with the government set to include the publication of updated draft regulations in its Autumn Statement on Wednesday.

Blue Capital Management, the ILS and reinsurance linked asset management unit of Bermuda re/insurer Endurance, has revealed the impact to its London and Bermuda stock exchange listed reinsurance linked investment fund from catastrophes in October.

Reinsurance, catastrophe and weather risk-linked investment fund manager Nephila Capital is set to benefit from a new source of Texas wind insurance risk, as its managing general agency (MGA), Velocity Risk Underwriters LLC. positions itself to take on ex-TWIA homeowners policies.

Alternative investment specialist, BroadRiver Asset Management, L.P, has successfully raised $366 million from existing and new investors for its life settlement fund, BroadRiver II.

The loss that will fall to the insurance and reinsurance market due to the damaged turret on the Kwame Nkrumah FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) operating on the Jubilee oil field, Ghana, is set to rise, as the FPSO will remain shutdown to production well into 2017.

Kelvin Re Ltd., the rated reinsurance vehicle operated by Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd. and backed by an investment from the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, has increased its gross premiums written in 2016 to over $150 million of catastrophe reinsurance cover.

Bermuda-based Iris Reinsurance Ltd., an index and parametric focused third-party capitalised collateralised insurance and reinsurance company, is to report its modelled net asset value on a regular basis as its manager Cartesian Re opts for transparency in ILS.

In recent times illiquid insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments, such as collateralised reinsurance, has overtaken the catastrophe bond space as the main source of ILS capacity. But the benefits of a liquid asset class and the expansion of third-party capital could increase demand for liquid ILS, according to WCMA.

As the convergence space continues to evolve and traditional and alternative reinsurance capital and structures become more integrated, along with the rise of technology in the sector, market leaders have questioned what this could mean for intermediaries and their role in the value chain.

Reinsurance capital looks set to pay for some of the damage caused by this weeks earthquakes in New Zealand, with local insurers having low deductibles and the EQC likely to call on its program as well, but questions of how many events have occurred could complicate matters, as could supply chain interruption.