Electrical utility Sempra Energy looks set to secure its third slice of catastrophe bond backed wildfire insurance protection at the minimum targeted issuance size of $180 million, while pricing for its new SD Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) transaction is on-track to settle at the mid-point of guidance.
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For the second year running, Hannover Re’s German subsidiary E+S Rückversicherung AG has forecast rising reinsurance prices at the renewals, but this year it’s down to the significant catastrophe losses suffered.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 17th 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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Florida’s homeowners insurance market is experiencing “unsutainable” conditions and the consistency of loss across the marketplace is seen as “staggering”, according to the CEO of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Barry Gilway.
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Vida Capital, Inc., the alternative investment manager with a life settlement and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focus, has announced the appointment of a new President and CEO in Blair Wallace.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has promoted one of its employees, Charlotte Kerr, to the position of Head of Valuations.
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Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance underwriter, has announced the hiring of Chris Coleman from SiriusPoint as its new Group Chief Executive Officer (CFO), a move that brings additional capital markets expertise to the company’s senior bench.
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Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial risk focused arm of the global reinsurance firm, has partnered with a provider of compact internet-connected seismographs in Japan, enabling it to use more responsive, in-situ, parametric trigger data sources.
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The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the listed, retrocession focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy managed by Markel CATCo Investment Management, has again seen its net asset value (NAV) rise after another reduction in catastrophe loss reserves, this time from the 2018 California wildfires.
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AXIS Capital, the Bermuda-based globally-active insurance and reinsurance company, has joined the catastrophe loss pre-announcements, saying that it expects a net and before tax hit of $250 million to its third-quarter results, the majority coming from hurricane Ida.
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Pension Insurance Corporation plc (PIC) announced just now that it intends to try and put together an investor group to challenge retrocessional reinsurance investment manager Markel CATCo’s proposed buyout scheme, saying that it believes it will “drastically undervalue the interests of investors.”
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Reinsurance capacity and reinsurance pricing have to rise further in order to cover the growing risks posed by climate change, climate-related risks and so-called secondary peril catastrophe events, Swiss Re’s Frank Reichelt explained today.
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Global insurance and reinsurance firm Everest Re, which also operates a third-party capital strategy in the Mt. Logan Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar-like vehicle, has pre-announced an expectation of its third-quarter catastrophe losses amounting to $635 million net.
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A new study of institutional investors from around the world by global asset management group Schroders has found that 10% of respondents plan to increase their allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS) over the next year.
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