Markel CATCo Investment Management

The investment fund operated by reinsurance and retrocessional reinsurance-linked asset manager CATCo Investment Management is on course so far in 2013 having produced ‘very satisfactory’ performance, according to its Chairman in the funds half-yearly report. CATCo has built a considerable share of the retrocessional reinsurance market and will seek to consolidate that.

Specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business CATCo Investment Management, which underwrites and manages portfolios of catastrophe reinsurance and retrocessional contracts using investment clients assets, has provided an update regarding the Moore, Oklahoma tornado event. CATCo says it expects no meaningful impact to its 2013 portfolio if the insured losses related to this event remain below […]

Specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business CATCo Investment Management, which manages investment clients assets and deploys them as retrocessional reinsurance capacity, has announced a new appointment to the firm as of the 1st of April. Judith Wynne joins CATCo as Group General Counsel and Company Secretary and will report directly to Jason Bibb, CATCo’s Chief […]

CATCo Investment Management, the specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business which manages investment clients assets and deploys them as retrocessional reinsurance capacity, has published its annual financial report today. In it CATCo’s new Chairman Nigel Barton comments that CATCo has become one of the largest providers of retrocessional reinsurance capacity in the industry, having deployed […]

Specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment manager CATCo Investment Management, who manage clients assets and deploy them as capacity for over $2 billion of retrocessional reinsurance portfolios, has published a stock market update commenting on the increased hurricane Sandy insurance industry loss estimate from PCS. CATCo’s comments relate to the size of the PCS estimate and […]

CATCo Investment Management, the specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business who manage investment clients assets and deploy them as capacity for retrocessional reinsurance portfolios, has seen impressive inflows of capital in the fourth quarter of 2012 with around $350m of new investments. Much of CATCo’s capacity has now been deployed at the January renewals across […]

CATCo Investment Management, the specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment manager who manage around $2 billion of retrocessional reinsurance portfolios for their clients, has announced that it is establishing a retrocessional reinsurance loss reserve for the expected impact of hurricane Sandy.

CATCo Investment Management, the specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business that manages around $2 billion of retrocessional reinsurance portfolios for its clients, has commuted a portion of its losses from the Costa Concordia marine disaster according to a stock exchange announcement. Commuting the losses early allows them to be accounted for now and reduces the […]

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund has a new non-executive director and chairman after the incembent resigned from the post to prevent future conflicts of interest. Anthony Taylor handed in his notice with effect from today, 5th November, after advising the board of that his involvement with a small but growing portfolio of collateralised reinsurance businesses […]

CATCo Investment Management, the specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business who manage around $2 billion of retrocessional reinsurance portfolios for their clients, have said today that they expect their fund, the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund, to deliver a net return in excess of 20% this year. The forecast was caveated with the statement that achieving […]