Aeolus Capital Management news

Andrew Bernstein, the CEO of specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., will become the Head of Portfolio Management at the firm, as co-head Evan Winters is to depart at the end of this year.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced the appointment of weather and climate meteorologist Dr. Chris Hennon as Senior Research Scientist.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced the hiring of Dia Bhatia from investment bank J.P. Morgan, who joins the firm as an Associate in its Business Development and Investor Relations team.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced the hiring of William Thuell to its Bermuda underwriting team as an Assistant Vice President.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced a new research partnership with natural disaster focused risk analytics firm RED – Risk Engineering + Development, in which implications of earthquake sequences will be explored.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, grew its assets under management considerably in time for the key January renewals, lifting the total by more than 40% to reach a new high of $5.5 billion.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has been the beneficiary of fresh investor client inflows in advance of the mid-year renewals, we understand, taking its overall assets under management (AUM) to $3.9 billion.

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the hedge fund solutions unit of Blackstone, upsized its investment into an insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategy managed by asset management giant PIMCO before the end of last year.

In reinsurance, the industry had softened its pricing to an unsustainable degree, resulting in a situation where margins for capital providers were thin to non-existent. But, recent moves in pricing, terms and conditions are an attempt to “balance things in favour of the reinsurers,” Aditya Dutt, President of Aeolus Capital Management explained.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and more broadly the reinsurance industry, must demonstrate to investors that the margin in the product is sustainable, to deliver greater confidence to capital and encourage more significant inflows to the space, Aditya Dutt, President of Aeolus Capital Management has said.