Collateralized reinsurance news

Computershare, an Australia headquartered banking, transfer agent and investor services provider, has acquired expertise in reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) collateral trusts, having purchased the Wells Fargo US Corporate Trust Business.

Climate change and providing risk transfer products to protect against its effects and to aid the world’s climate transition, is the biggest single environmental, social and governance (ESG) related attribute and opportunity for the worlds non-life insurance and reinsurance industry, according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.

Strategic Risk Solutions, Inc., an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, has acquired a segregated cell company in Barbados, increasing its range of options for those looking for structures to support insurance and reinsurance related transactions.

Robus, an insurance management, fiduciary and financial advisory firm that is part of the wider Ardonagh insurance and reinsurance Group, has received a green ESG kitemark accreditation for both its Protected Cell Company (PCC) and Incorporated Cell Company (ICC).

For our latest Artemis Live video interview we explored the importance of climate risk models in the management of portfolios of reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), with senior executives from Aeolus Capital Management.

We are delighted to announce to all our readers that we are returning to New York for an in-person conference on February 4th 2022, with ILS NYC 2022 registration now open and tickets available.

Goldman Sachs has made a new hire within its investment banking Insurance Structured Finance team, adding Tony Nguyen, an experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) structurer who most recently worked at Swiss Re.

Another new mutual investment fund is launching with a focus on investing in opportunities and asset classes that support the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), with catastrophe bonds singled out as one suitable category to allocate to.

AXIS ILS, the insurance-linked securities and third-party reinsurance capital arm of global specialty player AXIS Capital, has announced the hire of former Securis Investment Partners executive Patrick Witteveen, who joins the unit as Head of AXIS ILS Business Development.

Conditions in the catastrophe bond market look positive still in 2021, as year-end fast approaches, with both the pipeline for new cat bond issuance and the capital flows to cat bond fund managers healthy, signalling a favourable bond market environment, according to Aon.