Reinsurance News

While reinsurance capacity is abundant and available, enough to dampen rate increases slightly at the January renewals, the continuing existence of uncertainty in the market means that for reinsurance, “Despite plenty of available capital, it is of course not available at any price,” according to Lockton Re’s Ross Howard.

Lodgepine Capital Management Limited, the retrocessional reinsurance ILS fund management unit of Markel Corporation, had a “terrific” year in 2020, delivering double-digit returns on its portfolio which largely avoided any loss impacts during the period.

It’s always worth a look at Evan Greenberg’s comments when it comes to quarterly reporting from global insurance and reinsurance giant Chubb and the latest reporting yesterday holds a wealth of insight into factors that can help to make ILS returns increasingly attractive.

German reinsurance firm Hannover Re has downsized its capital markets backed K-Cessions quota share retro reinsurance sidecar facility to $610 million for 2021, a roughly 10% decrease from the prior year.

Hannover Re gave its report on the January 2021 reinsurance renewals today, citing around 10% price improvement across U.S. natural catastrophe reinsurance business, while across its book renewed business was subject to price increases of 5.5% and premium volumes rose by 8.5%.

Nephila Capital, the largest dedicated manager of insurance and reinsurance linked investment funds and assets, is expected to benefit from growing investor interest in the sector, with inflows of more than $1 billion anticipated in 2021, according to Markel Corporation executives.

U.S. primary mutual insurer USAA has announced its first expansion into small commercial business insurance, with a new offering targeting its core market of military veterans.

A new dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) management division has been launched by specialist motor-focused insurer ERS, with former Securis executive Neil Strong taking the lead role as CEO ILS.

A bushfire spreading on the outskirts of Perth, Western Australia has now destroyed 71 homes and more property damage is anticipated as the fire continues to expand and threaten communities in the area.

The operations of the largest dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager, Nephila Capital, delivered higher revenues to parent Markel Corporation in 2020, thanks to expansion and growth of its managing general agent (MGA) platform and a return to growth in assets under management (AuM), which hit $9.6 billion.