Collateralized reinsurance news

It appears we’re heading quickly towards a familiar reinsurance renewals story, where the ambition to capitalise on rate increases and subsequent inflows of capacity are now serving to ramp up competition. As a result, market sources expect pricing at the January 2021 reinsurance renewals will not be as hard as forecast back in September or […]

While the recent survey we conducted alongside Synpulse, looking at the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices in the risk transfer, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets, found that ESG is perceived as very important, there is an evident gap between perception and actual practice.

Following the news that Guernsey based, Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies supported reinsurance firms Kelvin Re and Humboldt Re are to cease underwriting new business, rating agency AM Best has placed their ratings under review with negative implications.

The two Guernsey domiciled, rated reinsurance carriers managed by and backed by capital from the Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies Ltd. team, Kelvin Re and Humboldt Re, are not renewing any business this January and will stop writing.

A new set of guidance on the treatment of passive foreign investment companies (PFICs) published at the end of last week by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and Department of the Treasury has been modified so that the active conduct test excludes insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, as well as other ILS and reinsurance securitization structures.

Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Government of Hong Kong, has highlighted catastrophe bond market growth in 2020 and a buoyant outlook for insurance-linked securities (ILS) as an opportunity for the Special Administrative Region as it moves towards enabling issuance of new ILS securities.

Howden Capital Markets has been launched as a new, nimble capital solutions advisory unit under HX, the data and analytics division of insurance and reinsurance broking, underwriting and advisory group Howden Group Holdings.

The average return of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund market was dented in October 2020 by some selling pressure on certain aggregate catastrophe bond positions and reserve setting for potential losses to catastrophe reinsurance programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

AXIS Re, the reinsurance division of global specialty re/insurer AXIS Capital, has announced the hiring of Emilie Hungenberg in Zurich, who’s most recent position had been as a Senior ILS Underwriter with investment manager Schroders.

Ardonagh Group, the largest independent insurance broking, underwriting, servicing and management company in the UK, has now added insurance-linked securities (ILS) servicing and management to its range of offerings, as its managing general agent Geo Underwriting has acquired insurance manager Robus Group.