Reinsurance News

Arch Re, the reinsurance underwriting arm of specialty re/insurer Arch Capital Group in Bermuda, has hired Brian Lynch from Aon’s insurance management unit for an operational role focused on insurance-linked securities and retrocession.

Twelve Capital, the Zurich headquartered catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, has appointed well-known ILS exec Tony Maximchuk as a Non-Executive Director for its Twelve Capital (UK) Limited operation.

While challenges around capital consumption and the potential for overlap on the P&C side are clear, for investors, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class represents a great opportunity to complement other private market solutions, according to industry experts.

The 1% aggregate exceedance probability insured loss (also the 100-year return period loss) from catastrophe events around the globe has risen to more than US $300 billion, according to risk modeller AIR Worldwide.

International specialty insurance and reinsurance group Chaucer plc has launched a U.S. reinsurance focused underwriting operation in Bermuda, from where it expects to write quota share and excess of loss business across property, casualty and specialty lines.

TigerRisk Partners LLC, the global risk, capital and reinsurance brokerage and advisory, has announced the hiring of Bill O’Keefe from consultancy McKinsey to become the firms new Head of Strategy.

In spite of an expected decline by the end of 2020, the volume of alternative capital in the global reinsurance market is projected to increase by five to 10 percent over the coming years, according to Jérôme Jean Haegeli, Chief Economist at reinsurance giant Swiss Re.

In light of its uncertain but apparent influence on both the frequency and severity of natural catastrophe events, it’s no surprise that climate change is at the forefront of the minds of catastrophe risk underwriters, investors and of course model vendors, but it’s important to remember that this is not the only uncertainty.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the giant Canadian headquartered alternative asset manager that has around $575 billion of assets under management, is expanding in the reinsurance space with an annuities strategy through which it expects to secure up to $10 billion of additional float at the start.

Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance firm, is optimistic about the opportunities it will see for its fully-collateralised reinsurance sidecar vehicle Oxbridge Re NS Ltd.