Alternative reinsurance capital

Vesttoo has responded to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors calls for its liquidation to be accelerated, stating that it has produced “a significant business plan” and that the creditors should give the insurtech the time to deliver what it believes could be a “value-maximizing transaction.”

The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Vesttoo bankruptcy case objects strongly to the insurtech’s plans to attempt to trade forward, calling these efforts a “wasteful pursuit” that is burning money that could be returned to those harmed by the extensive letter of credit (LOC) in reinsurance fraud.

Reinsurance market conditions are primed for an increasing turn towards alternatives, in sourcing capital and risk transfer solutions, according to Laurent Rousseau of Guy Carpenter.

Specialty player R&Q announced an agreement to sell its Accredited program management business to private equity investor Onex on Friday, a move that will see R&Q refocus on its legacy specialism, with its Gibson Re collateralised sidecar vehicle expected to play an even more core role going forwards.

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The insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is not hard, at least not in the traditional sense of the phrase hard market, but it has experienced a generational shift, with the cost of reinsurance capital structurally reset at higher levels, according to speakers at the recent Convergence event in Bermuda.

As the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of beleaguered insurtech Vesttoo continues, the latest is that insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon has agreed that the Committee of Unsecured Creditors can conduct some legal discovery on its entities, including White Rock.

While reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) continues to see a rotation out of certain investors, given macro factors and concerns over volatility, at the same time there is a new crop of investors rotating in that may better understand the fundamentals of the space.

European pension and life consolidator Phoenix Group is the latest company focused on this space to consider leveraging investor appetite for insurance-linked returns to bring third-party capital into its business to augment its ability to write more bulk purchase annuity business.

Registration is now open for our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS NYC 2024 will be held in New York City on February 9th 2024, with around 400 attendees from the ILS community expected to come together for a day of thought-leadership, discussion and valuable networking.