Reinsurance News

The January 2021 reinsurance renewals are approaching completion and it looks as if third-party and collateralized sources of reinsurance and retrocession capacity have played a key role again, with capital markets sources of funding growing across the marketplace.

Core Specialty, the recently launched recapitalised an rebranded excess and surplus lines (E&S) specialist underwriter, has picked Adam Tyburski, previously CUO of Spinnaker, for a key role as Co-Head of Personal Lines Fronted Programs.

Catalina Re, the reinsurance arm of legacy and run-off specialist Catalina Holdings, has hired Tom Duggan, a well-known investment analyst who previously had a focus on insurance-linked securities (ILS) among the asset classes he covered.

A number of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds invested into collateralised reinsurance positions that are exposed to catastrophe events in Australia have reported negative performance for November on the back of reserving for hail storms and severe weather, we understand.

Premia Holdings, the global run-off and legacy reinsurance specialist underwriter, has become the first run-off player to bring additional capital into its business using a collateralized reinsurance sidecar structure, with the launch of Elevation Re.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based asset manager with a focus on alternative risk premia strategies including reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), successfully expanded the remit of its reinsurance and ILS investments to include non-catastrophe risks this year.

A new Singapore domiciled insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction has come to light, after a recently registered Special Purpose Reinsurance Vehicle named Phoenix 1 Re Pte. Ltd. issued and listed almost $42.14 million of private ILS notes.

The physical climate risk protection gap, so the gulf between climate related losses covered by insurance, reinsurance or risk transfer and those going uncovered, is widening, but instruments such as insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bonds and other blended financing solutions can help to narrow this gap.

Cayman Islands based reinsurance companies have established a new industry group called the Cayman International Reinsurance Companies Association (CIRCA), which is expected to help further develop the islands reinsurance sector.

Yesterday, Croatia was struck by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that has destroyed many buildings and was the largest quake to strike the country since the introduction of modern seismic instrumentation.