Bermuda news

More than half of the insurance and reinsurance entities registered by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) in the first-half of 2024 were destined for catastrophe bond, collateralized reinsurance, or other insurance-linked securities (ILS) use-cases.

Appleby, the specialist global law firm and fiduciary services provider, has announced the hiring of Cathryn Minors, a lawyer with experience across insurance-linked securities (ILS), insurance and reinsurance in offshore domiciles, as a new Counsel in its Bermuda office.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has now established a third collateralized insurer class of company on the island to support the continued expansion of its Monarch Point Re casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform.

The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has laid out its plans for 2024, with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Craig Swan highlighting specific opportunities in parametric risk transfer for climate insurance.

Registrations of new vehicles for catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) purposes have once again dominated the statistics on registrations of new insurance and reinsurance entities in Bermuda for 2023.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, ceded more premiums to third-party investors in the third-quarter of 2023, as its new Monarch Point Re casualty ILS vehicle started its build-out.

While there are many ways to generate alpha for your investors in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, it remains critical to manage investor expectations and avoid delivering unwanted surprises, speakers at Convergence 2023 in Bermuda said last week.

Speaking at the Convergence 2023 event in Bermuda yesterday, John Seo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Fermat Capital Management, explained that there is significant investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) right now, but when it comes to allocating, capital is slower moving these days.

At the Convergence 2023 conference in Bermuda today, speakers from insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers explained that the market remains smaller than is really desired and there is a need to continue efforts to make it more scalable, to meet the needs of larger investors.

Right now, there is an opportunity for institutional investors to harvest “the most pronounced risk-adjusted returns” from allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS), according to Jo Stanton, Chair of ILS Bermuda and Head of Finance at Tangency Capital, speaking this morning at Convergence 2023.