The package of reforms to Florida’s property insurance market contained in the Bill being debated during this week’s Special Session has now passed its final real hurdle in the Legislature, having been approved in the House of Representatives. It’s a meaningful step in the right direction, but no panacea for all of Florida’s future insurance […]
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Investors in two of primary mutual insurer USAA’s outstanding and loss affected catastrophe bonds have received additional returns of collateral from the structures, with approximately $17.44 million delivered back to holders of each set of notes, Artemis has learned.
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Hurricane Ian’s impacts in Florida and on its property insurers could have sounded a death knell for many of them, were it not for the support they’re receiving from their catastrophe reinsurance arrangements, ALIRT Insurance Research has said.
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Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States has provided reinsurance to back a £7 billion longevity swap and risk transfer arrangement for the Barclays Bank UK Retirement Fund, a pension scheme and fund managing assets on behalf of UK employees of the bank.
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Against the backdrop of increasing impacts from climate change, consultancy EY has suggested that property catastrophe reinsurance rates need to rise by 50% at the 2023 renewals, just to offset rising costs of claims and to restore profitability for the re/insurance sector.
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Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has released new profit guidance under IFRS 17, with the new accounting regime lifting figures materially, but analysts believe the hard market will also be a significant factor in the €4bn target for 2023.
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ARX Holding, the Progressive-owned parent of American Strategic Insurance Group, has returned to the catastrophe bond market in search of a $125 million or larger Bonanza Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) deal that will provide it both occurrence named storm and aggregate multi-peril coverage.
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Liberty Mutual, the U.S. primary insurance giant and global reinsurance player, is hoping to upsize its new Mystic Re IV Ltd. (Series 2023-1) catastrophe bond transaction to as much as $150 million in size, but with pricing that has lifted to the top-end of guidance.
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Eclipse Re Ltd., a private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note, private catastrophe bond issuance and reinsurance transformer platform owned and operated by Artex Capital Solutions, has listed three more private cat bond issues totalling roughly $29.54 million of notes in Bermuda.
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Some new reinsurance capital could begin to flow in advance of the Florida focused June renewal season at June 1st 2023, according to Chris Dittman, Head of Florida Strategy at Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions.
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The current re/insurance market dislocation provides a unique opportunity for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space to influence the development of a more sustainable industry for the benefit of all parties, according to Kathleen Faries, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Artex Capital Solutions.
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Alternatives and re/insurance focused investment firm Vida Capital has been rebranded as Obra Capital and has added a new strategy of relevance to our readers, called Insurance Special Situations investing and it includes a specialty reinsurance focus.
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Accelerant, the insurtech that helps members exchange and transfer risk more effectively, while also connecting them with long-term capital, has hired experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry executive Tim Tetlow as the CEO of its Cayman Islands based reinsurer, Accelerant Re (Cayman) Ltd.
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Inigo, the Lloyd’s syndicate owner and specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, is pleased with the execution of its second catastrophe bond transaction, the $110 million Montoya Re Ltd. (Series 2022-2) deal, especially given its successful placement in a “turbulent” market.
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