Reinsurance News

Arch Capital Group, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has hired Greg Habay, an executive with experience across insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance-linked investing, to a new position focused on developing third-party capital business and managing relations with ILS partners.

Cayman Islands based collateralized reinsurance company Northern Reinsurance SPC, Ltd. (Northern Re) has taken its committed capital to $75 million, after it raised an additional $50 million from investors to allocate to programs of high-frequency, low-severity insurance risks.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has drawn up a plan for implementation of a disaster risk insurance facility for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, for which insurance-linked securities (ILS) would be seen as an important source of reinsurance capacity and it has even mooted issuing them itself.

Catastrophe exposed commercial property insurance renewals are expected to see some of the biggest rate gains in 2024, as pressure continues and a challenged reinsurance market drives buyers towards alternative solutions, to offset rising rates.

Having spent time in Bermuda and attended the recent PwC Insurance Summit on the island, the equity analyst team at BMO Capital Markets has concluded that the insurance and reinsurance industry is suffering a lack of confidence in its risk models, which they say has been a key driver in capital flight and retrenching higher.

SCOR Investment Partners, the asset management arm of the French reinsurance group and a manager of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has announced a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) appointment, with long-standing executive Louis Bourrousse taking over the top-position.

We’ve learned that the hurricane Ian side pocket investment situation has improved considerably for some insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers, with a number of key exposures now failing to reach the levels of cedent loss needed to attach coverage in recent weeks.

Fitch Ratings forecasts that property catastrophe reinsurance renewal rate increases will decelerate in 2024, with an average increase expected to be below 10% at the January renewal season.

CatX, a digital catastrophe and parametric risk exchange start-up, has announced a successful raise of a $2.7 million seed funding round, as it looks to ramp up its mission to connect re/insurers with efficient sources of alternative reinsurance risk capital.

Acting as a front or transformer for insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and investors is an increasingly important part of global reinsurance firm Hannover Re’s business and there is evidence these activities grew further for the company in the first-half of 2023.