Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 30th November 2014, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates.
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The London and Bermuda listed, reinsurance and insurance linked investment Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund, has successfully raised $21.2m in its latest share placement, taking its total share capital to just over $217m.
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Executives speaking on the sidelines of the 2014 S&P PwC Bermuda Reinsurance Conference and the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2014 events earlier this month, stressed that innovation is vital to transition through the current reinsurance market challenges.
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Countries across Asia continue to develop, or pursue the development of, functioning catastrophe insurance and reinsurance markets, which is a positive sign for global reinsurers and the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market.
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Insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance linked investment and pure catastrophe bond funds returned an average of 0.61% for the month of October, which is slightly above the long-term average, strong performance in the currently low-rate environment.
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The recent severe snowstorm in the Buffalo, New York state area, could cause losses at some regional property insurance writers to the extent that it hits the retention on their catastrophe reinsurance treaties, according to A.M. Best.
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Zenkyoren, as the largest single buyer of catastrophe reinsurance protection globally is known, is back with a new Japanese earthquake catastrophe bond, Nakama Re Ltd. (Series 2014-2), seeing the insurer looking for as much as five years of protection.
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If there were three key features of reinsurance or retrocessional protection which have come to the fore in 2014 they would have to be capital efficiency, the overall flexibility of coverage being offered and the effectiveness of reinsurance coverage to meet a buyers needs.
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The leading insurance and reinsurance rating agencies have given mixed views of Bermudian reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings’ intention to buy Bermuda-compatriot Platinum Underwriters for $1.9 billion.
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U.S. insured catastrophe losses from winter storms in 2014 are likely to reach $2.5 billion plus by year’s end, which would be the fourth costliest year for winter storm losses on record, so could trouble some reinsurance contracts, but not cat bonds yet.
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Life reinsurer Reinsurance Group of America Inc. is marketing a life reinsurance embedded value securitisation transaction, through an issuer named Chesterfield Financial Holdings LLC, as it seeks to recognise some of the profitability of a defined book of life business.
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During an analysts presentation this morning Amlin, the London-headquartered non-life insurance and reinsurance business, emphasised the strategic importance of its now larger stake in insurance linked securities (ILS) investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners.
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Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re expects that property catastrophe reinsurance pricing will remain under pressure through 2015 renewal seasons, due to the continued abundance of capacity and low-level of catastrophe losses.
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Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. (R&Q) has entered into a joint venture agreement with Phoenix Asset Management Partners Ltd. which will see the pair building a fund of insurance and reinsurance debt assets.
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