Reinsurance News

Members Capital Management Limited (MembersCap), the Bermuda-regulated investment manager, launched its first tokenised insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, MCM Fund I on the Archax digital asset exchange, marking a notable milestone in bridging institutional reinsurance and blockchain-based finance.

The CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility), in collaboration with CelsiusPro and its subsidiary Global Parametrics, has launched the CCRIF Microinsurance Facility, along with the underlying digital insurance administrative platform solution, the White Label Platform.

According to global reinsurance firm Swiss Re, inflation adjusted exposure to natural catastrophe losses is set to continue growing at a faster pace than insurance premiums around the world, which will drive the expanding protection gap even wider over the coming years.

Despite the fact property catastrophe reinsurance rates have moderated somewhat, analysts at Jefferies said the market remains attractive and they do not classify it as soft given pricing remains above 2022 levels at this time.

News continues to emerge that reflects the increased availability of aggregate reinsurance protection, as an analyst report shows Italian insurance and financial services group Unipol secured a planned €300 million aggregate reinsurance treaty to better protect it against smaller catastrophes and weather losses.

Insurance carriers in Florida are likely to turn to the private reinsurance and capital markets for even more limit after two state funded reinsurance facilities were amended in recent days.

Following a very active start to the year, the second quarter of 2025 appears to have been significantly quieter in terms of large natural catastrophe losses for the global re/insurance industry, according to a new report from J.P. Morgan.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager, has announced the appointment of Ross Cooper as a Risk Analyst, based in Bermuda.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has reported that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management in its mutual reinsurance fund strategies increased to almost $5.3 billion in the last quarter of record, with catastrophe bonds seemingly growing in focus.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Invest have unveiled a major expansion of disaster risk financial instruments designed to enhance the use of reinsurance and the capital markets for risk transfer across Latin America and the Caribbean.