GAM Holding AG, the parent company to global asset manager GAM Investments, reported an impressive roughly US $500 million of net inflows to its catastrophe bond strategies in the first-half of 2022, including the funds managed by specialist Fermat Capital Management.

Hannover Re benefited from an increased recovery under its long-standing capital markets backed mortality swap arrangement by the end of the first-half of 2022, with the financial benefit from the retro hedge reaching EUR 88 million by the end of the period.

Having had its rating withdrawn recently, Florida focused property insurance carrier Weston Property & Casualty Company is now heading for insolvency, after the regulator initiated delinquency proceedings against it.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has set up a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) venture, launching an SEC registered investment adviser today named Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC), which will have a focus on catastrophe bond investment management.

PartnerRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance company, has retained an important investment into its third-party capital vehicles from former owner Exor and reported a growing P&C reinsurance business at a profitable combined ratio.

Global reinsurance company Hannover Re has continued its strong growth through the first-half of 2022, with the firms gross premiums written growing by almost 20% across the group and 26% in the P&C reinsurance business.

As a rating agency and scorekeeper of record for insurance carrier financial stability, Demotech is not the problem in the challenged insurance markets, such as Florida, Louisiana, or elsewhere, according to Steve Menzies, Chairman of Applied Underwriters.

Insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation has significantly expanded its use of the Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle during the first-half of 2022, ceding much more in the way of premiums to investors through the structure.