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.
Insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon will continue blurring the lines between broking and underwriting capital provider as it looks to replicate the success of initiatives such as its Client Treaty at Lloyd’s and the Marilla catastrophe reinsurance facility.
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Clarien Investments Limited (CIL), the asset management arm of Clarien Bank, one of Bermuda’s largest independent integrated financial services firms, has launched its first insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund and is tapping the expertise of established ILS managers by making it a fund-of-funds strategy.
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Global insurance and reinsurance giant Zurich reported that through 2021 it once again lent more heavily on reinsurance and retrocessional capital sources, ceding US $9.2 billion of property and casualty (P&C) premiums to them, an increase of 7% over 2020.
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Brit Ltd., the specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has ambitious plans to expand its Sussex Capital ILS management and collateralised reinsurance platform, according to Chris Denton, Managing Director of Sussex Capital Management and the Chief Underwriting Officer of Brit Re.
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In the first of a series of sponsor showcase video interviews for the upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2022 conference (held April 22nd in New York City), we welcomed Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, who joined us to talk all things political violence, unrest and cyber risk.
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Global insurance and reinsurance company Everest Re has is experiencing strong investor interest for its Mt. Logan Re Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar-like vehicle, CEO Juan Andrade said yesterday.
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Specialty insurance and reinsurance player Brit Ltd. has made two new senior hires to the team of its Sussex Capital ILS management and collateralised reinsurance platform, adding well-known insurance-linked securities (ILS) executives Cornell Fox and Masa Kitade in Bermuda.
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Specialty insurance and reinsurance player Brit Ltd. reported its results for 2021 this morning and its senior executives disclosed that the company experienced increased income through its third-party capital management activities for the year, while these structures also played a role in funding capital to its new algorithmic Ki Syndicate.
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Specialty insurance and reinsurance group Lancashire Holdings continued its story of expansion through full-year 2021, reporting a doubling in the size of its property and casualty reinsurance book over the course of the year.
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Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management and collateralised reinsurance underwriter, has made three promotions as it continues to strengthen its institutional quality ILS management platform.
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