Collateralized reinsurance news

Christian Mumenthaler, the CEO of Swiss Re believes that the reinsurance market will continue to harden significantly, as so far the price gains made by the industry have been largely eaten up by issues elsewhere that affect the reinsurance balance-sheet.

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), an organisation that looks to create consensus on issues of note and share knowledge in the alternative investments sector, has highlighted Lloyd’s managing agents as an entity similar to an asset manager.

We’ve developed an industry-loss warranty (ILW) pricing data set from information we’ve gathered over the years, as well as recent input from our market sources that helped validate this new Artemis data service.

The alternative capital market segment of reinsurance, so insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bonds and the like, will resume growth on the back of firming reinsurance pricing, analysts at Moody’s believe.

Yesterday, close to 250 attendees joined us for our first insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference held in London, enjoying insightful talks from our speakers and networking opportunities with ILS players, reinsurance executives and investors.

Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, has further increased its third-party capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management to roughly $1 billion by the middle of 2022.

Alternative capital could be “more relevant than ever” in the global reinsurance industry and has a chance to grow, at a time when reinsurers are looking to manage their volatility more tightly and pulling-back in some quarters such as catastrophe risks, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Alternative reinsurance capital, so the capacity deployed through insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures including catastrophe bonds, has remained relatively flat since 2021, but with traditional reinsurance capital having shrunk, the ILS market’s share has increased, according to Gallagher Re.

R&Q, or Randall & Quilter, the non-life insurance and reinsurance legacy, run-off and program management specialist, has reported earning $9 million of fee income from its legacy insurance focused collateralised reinsurance sidecar, Gibson Re.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, as a group tracked by ILS Advisers and Eurekahedge, have delivered their best single monthly return of the year since January, with the average return across the group of ILS funds reaching 0.24% in July 2022.