William Spiegel, Executive Group Chairman of Randall & Quilter (R&Q) Investment Holdings, said this morning that insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets are a target for the firms growing program management business.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance rates are forecast to rise by more than 10% at the upcoming January 2022 renewal season, according to rating agency Fitch.
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Farmers Insurance Group is now targeting up to $160 million of collateralized reinsurance protection from its first catastrophe bond, as the Topanga Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) issuance grew during marketing, while its pricing was fixed at the upper-end of guidance.
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NN Group, or Nationale-Nederlanden, has entered the catastrophe bond market for the first time, seeking to secure EUR 75 million or more in collateralised reinsurance from a first Orange Capital Re DAC (Series 2021-1) issuance.
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Gallagher Re looks set to win a major new reinsurance broking client thanks to its acquisition of Willis Re, as the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA’s) Actuarial & Underwriting Committee continues to make the recommendation for a change.
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Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance focused software house Treefrog Consulting Ltd. has announced enhancements to its ILS and reinsurance deal pricing and roll-up platform Foundation, improving the way it deals with catastrophe bonds and adding new real-time portfolio analytics.
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Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) has taken ownership of another private catastrophe bond issuance platform and insurance-linked securities (ILS) transformer vehicle, with the previously Willis Towers Watson owned Resilience Re Ltd. passing across to the company as part of its recently completed acquisition of Willis Re’s treaty reinsurance operations.
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According to Artemis’ sources, the issuance of a $100 million mortality catastrophe bond, sponsored by Securian Financial Group life insurance subsidiary, Minnesota Life Insurance Company, has now been cancelled after investor feedback related to concerns over COVID-19 pandemic related exposure.
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For the fourth year in a row, Zurich based specialist catastrophe bond and ILS investment manager Plenum Investments has been accredited with the sustainability FNG Label by the German “Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen e.V.” (FNG) for its cat bond focused strategy.
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Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has returned to the catastrophe bond market in search of a collateralized source of worldwide peak peril annual aggregate and industry loss based retrocessional reinsurance protection, with a $100 million or greater 3264 Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) cat bond deal.
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Bermuda headquartered ILS fund and reinsurance linked investment manager ILS Capital Management has further increased its stake in Helios Underwriting, the Lloyd’s of London focused investment and underwriting vehicle, with an additional share purchase.
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Reducing or controlling exposure to catastrophe risks is seen as the most important driver of reinsurance buying decisions for the January 2022 renewal season, according to hundreds of respondents to our recent market survey.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending December 5th 2021, 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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Tremor Technologies, the insurtech with a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has announced the launch of Tremor Fetch™, a piece of functionality that will allow placement participants and capacity to follow the consensus market clearing price.
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