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.
While growing its business substantially again in the third-quarter, it seems that global insurance and reinsurance company Everest Re ceded more of its written premiums to reinsurance capacity, either to third-party capital investors in Mt. Logan Re, or its retrocessionaires, as the significant catastrophe losses drove it to an underwriting loss for the third-quarter of […]
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With rising catastrophe losses impacting insurance and reinsurance markets, S&P Global Ratings believes that use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) is going to increase.
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On still improving prospects for the sector, hedge fund specialist manager K2 Advisors has updated its view to “strongly overweight” for catastrophe bond and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments, saying that pricing indications for the January renewals look strong as well.
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The Howden insurance and reinsurance broking group is expected to launch a new capital markets focused reinsurance unit in Bermuda and has hired Darren Redhead from Lancashire Capital Management to lead at least the third-party capital aspect of the initiative, it’s understood.
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With the world attempting to speed a transition to lower carbon economies and the key Conference of Parties (COP 26) beginning at the end of this month, it was interesting to hear Maria Rapin, CEO of Nephila Climate explain that a key focus for the company is now on product development.
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Investment consultants continue to demonstrate the influence they have over institutional allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS), as Aon Hewitt has now advised the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System to wind-down an allocation to an Aeolus Capital Management fund.
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Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management and collateralised reinsurance underwriter, has announced the hiring of former Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM) employee Jacqueline Muschett to the role of Managing Director, Head of Actuarial & Valuations.
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Humboldt Re Ltd., one of the two Guernsey based, Credit Suisse Insurance-Linked Strategies supported rated reinsurance carriers, has now been sold to European property and casualty (P&C) run-off specialist company Marco Capital Holdings Limited.
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund), one of the government pension investment providers, has added to its insurance and reinsurance linked investments again in the last year, with a doubling of its allocation to investment manager Elementum Advisors, seemingly all in catastrophe bonds.
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Humboldt Re Ltd., one of the two Guernsey based, Credit Suisse Insurance-Linked Strategies supported rated reinsurance carriers, is being sold to a run-off specialist, with the deal expected to complete imminently.
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