Alternative reinsurance capital

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has increased its policy count by 28% in just the last 18 months and the insurer expects its growth to continue at an unsustainable rate, which now makes it “the insurer of first resort,” according to its Chairman.

United States life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company Global Atlantic continues to deploy capital from its co-investment vehicle named Ivy, which operates like a sidecar structure, with the structure participating in an $8.5 billion reinsurance transaction with Unum Group.

Patrick Roder, Associate Partner and Global Head of ILS at Synpulse Management Consulting, joined us recently to discuss the publication of a study analysing the results of our survey on the maturity of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices in the risk transfer, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets.

Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, has partnered with risk modelling specialist JBA Risk Management to design a parametric flood insurance product for VisionFund to cover flood risks in Myanmar.

Market participants across risk transfer, including insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance, have a lot to gain from further operationalising Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) within their core businesses, our now published study reveals.

The climate conditions seen in the North Atlantic ocean at the moment are conducive to the formation of tropical storms and hurricanes, so suggest a chance of elevated hurricane activity in 2021 and beyond, according to global reinsurance firm Swiss Re, something the main forecasters are also pointing towards.

Reinsurance pricing momentum is forecast to continue through all of the 2021 renewal seasons, with rises of 5% to 6% expected across the key upcoming January renewals, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley.

Both the understanding and adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices and compliance in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry is growing in prominence, but as noted by industry experts at a recent roundtable event, there’s more work to do.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 13th December 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

The impending insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure that is being developed by the Lloyd’s of London insurance and reinsurance marketplace will be about capital provision through Lloyd’s members, so investors will benefit from a new web-based platform for managing their asset allocations to the marketplace.