News and articles about collateralized reinsurance transactions and collateralised reinsurance market trends.
Collateralised reinsurance simply refers to any fully-collateralised reinsurance transaction, be that securitised or not.
Collateralized reinsurance allows ILS funds, hedge funds, pension funds and unrated, third-party capitalised reinsurance vehicles to participate in major reinsurance programs as the contracts they write are fully-collateralised.
The collateral is put up by investors or third-party capital providers to cover in full the potential claims that could arise from the reinsurance contract.
Normally the collateral posted is equal to the full reinsurance contract limit, minus the net premiums charged for the protection.
Our Artemis London 2022 conference a month ago was themed as a celebration of the catastrophe bond and our opening session of the day featured a fantastic keynote speech about the cat bond market and a lightning run through 25 landmark cat bonds from the first 25 years of the sector.
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Chard Re, the reinsurance-linked investment manager launched by well-known former Markel CATCo executives Rick Montgomerie and Charlie Vaughan, has hired a new Senior Portfolio Analyst in William (Bill) Orendorf, who is based in Bermuda.
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It feels a little negative to focus on just two ILS fund strategies in this way, but as the Stone Ridge Asset Management mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond funds are the only ones that are priced on a daily basis, they are providing valuable insights for the rest of the ILS market in […]
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Another indication of the impacts of hurricane Ian for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is in how the publicly available net asset values of mutual catastrophe bond, ILS and reinsurance linked investment funds have been moving.
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Bernina Re Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance underwriting and transformer vehicle backed by capital from funds managed by Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd., has made a key appointment in hiring well-known executive Will Haddrell from startup Kettle.
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With major hurricane Ian approaching its Florida landfall, the main mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bond and reinsurance linked investment funds have experienced some declines, with Stone Ridge Asset Management’s strategies leading the way.
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Eclipse Re Ltd., a private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note, private catastrophe bond issuance and reinsurance transformer platform owned and operated by Artex Capital Solutions, has completed two more issuances of private cat bond notes, totalling $76 million of new risk capital issued.
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The insurance-linked securities (ILS) marketplace is looking particularly attractive at this time, with returns rising on the back of hardening reinsurance rates and greatly improved contract terms having been enforced through recent rounds of renewals.
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The fifth and final panel session of our ILS NYC 2022 conference, that was held in New York back in April, saw our expert moderators from earlier sessions at the event come together to discuss some of the main threads of conversation from the day.
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Two factors are currently being looked on very favourably by any institutional investors that are researching the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class, the stability of an ILS investment managers’ assets over recent years, and importantly how the amount that was actually deployable has fluctuated.
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