Global insurance and reinsurance market losses from natural catastrophe events have already surpassed $100 billion in 2023, making this the sixth year since 2017 that this level of nat cat insured losses has been reached, according to Gallagher Re’s Chief Science Officer Steve Bowen.
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Rating agency AM Best is not anticipating any significant inflow of new capital or startup companies into the global reinsurance sector, at least not enough to derail the current hard market conditions, Greg Carter, Managing Director, Analytics – EMEA & Asia Pacific said today.
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Nephila Capital, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset manager owned by Markel, has effectively cleaned up its legacy reserves and eliminated trapped capital for its investors, through an arrangement entered into with the help of an adverse development cover (ADC) from its parent.
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Reinsurance sidecar vehicles are in favour right now, with investors liking the certainty they provide in terms of duration and seeing them as an attractive way to capitalise on a hard reinsurance market that is of unknown duration, while the returns are clearly much-improved as the majority are pitching 20% plus returns.
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K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton, has raised its conviction on investing into insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments to “strongly overweight” saying it anticipates firm pricing conditions and despite some spread tightening in catastrophe bonds the yields remain attractive.
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Nascent Group, an insurance management and reinsurance transformer company launched to reimagine the insurance-linked securities (ILS) servicing space, has announced the hire of Warren De Klerk to lead its catastrophe bond administration activities.
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While Beazley’s CEO said earlier this year that underwriting property risks is a “moving feast” because of climate change, the re/insurance company has not shied away, writing 63% more in property premiums so far this year in what it calls “exceptional” market conditions.
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There is evidence from the third-quarter 2023 results of White Mountains that its re/insurer subsidiary Ark is starting to see increasingly significant benefits delivered by the $250 million Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar that it launched at the end of 2022.
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In what looks to be a positive sign for its third-party investors, the Mt. Logan Re collateralized sidecar vehicle has been accepting increased levels of reinsurance premiums in 2023, while losses ceded to it by parent Everest Group are down considerably.
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Strategic Risk Solutions, Inc., an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, has announced the launch of a managing general underwriter (MGU) named Altitude, through which it intends to offer a range of alternative risk transfer solutions, including parametric risk transfer.
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The bet that Warren Buffett’s reinsurance business at Berkshire Hathaway has made on writing more property catastrophe risks is paying off so far in 2023, with P&C reinsurance earnings soaring, as its premiums also rose aided by the TransRe acquisition.
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Insurer USAA looks set to have a strong result from its latest catastrophe bond, with significant support shown by the investor base for its new Residential Reinsurance 2023 Limited (Series 2023-2) deal, from which it is now targeting as much as $400 million of multi-peril reinsurance.
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French mutual insurer Covéa Group has lifted the target size for its latest catastrophe bond, now seeking €145 million in collateralized windstorm reinsurance from this Hexagon IV Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) issuance, but the pricing has risen, most significantly for the riskier tranche of notes that are on offer.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending November 5th 2023, 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 or get our email alerts for every article we publish.
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