Markel CATCo Investment Management

CATCo Investment Management, the specialist Bermuda based reinsurance-linked investment business who manage around $2 billion of retrocessional portfolios for their clients, have announced that the net asset value of the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund increased by around 5.3% from $339.8m to $357.9m during the first six months of 2012. The positive performance reflects the gain […]

Bermuda based CATCo Investment Management, the specialist reinsurance-linked investment business who manage around $2 billion of retrocessional portfolios for their clients, have announced that CATCo Diversified Fund in which the Company invests has closed down its side pocket associated with their New Zealand and Japanese catastrophe exposures. CATCo originally set up the side pocket to […]

CATCo Investment Management, the Bermuda headquartered specialist investment business who manage around $2 billion of retrocessional reinsurance portfolios for their clients, has announced a new hire. They’ve hired Michael Toyer to the newly created role of Head of Investment Operations which will see him take on responsibility for the CATCo Group of Companies investment operations, […]

CATCo Investment Management has published an update to the stock market and their investors on their expected losses and exposure to investors from the earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan in 2011 through their investment in the collateralized reinsurer and retrocession underwriter CATCo Re.

CATCo Investment Management have added a new experienced hire to their team in the shape of a new Director of Underwriting. Ron Collins joins CATCo from Aon Benfield. He has 30 years of experience in reinsurance underwriting and broking with his most recent role as Senior Managing Director at Aon Benfield focusing on the development […]

CATCo Investment Management have published the annual financial report for the year of 2011 for their flagship fund, the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund. Despite a record year of catastrophe losses during 2011 CATCo’s fund still managed to generate a positive return for their investors and shareholders.

CATCo Investment Management have issued an update on their CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund regarding portfolio deployment and their activity in the recent January renewals. All available capital has been substantially deployed across multiple reinsurance counterparties according to the release and as of today’s date in conjunction with CATCo-Re Ltd. (their Class 3 Bermuda reinsurer) they […]

CATCo Investment Management have published an update to the stock market and their investors regarding the development of loss estimates from some of the major catastrophes experienced around the world in 2011 and how that will impact the returns they will be making to investors. Loss estimates associated with the Japanese and New Zealand earthquakes […]

CATCo’s latest fundraising takes it to roughly $1 billion assets under management CATCo Investment Management have announced today that they have grown their CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd. to $338m after another round of fundraising. CATCo have received new commitments from institutional investors of $125m and are issuing new C Shares to accommodate the new […]

CATCo Investment Management have released an announcement which discusses the potential exposure that some shareholders in their CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd. may have due to increasing loss estimates from the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. They say that the portfolio has potential exposure to the NZ quakes in their Rest of World risk pillar […]