Collateralized reinsurance news

Multi-Strat Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda based holding company that underwrites casualty and longer-tailed reinsurance and arranges casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) transactions, has been acquired by Canopius Group Limited.

Property insurance rates are expected to continue hardening through 2020 and into 2021 by AmWINS, as the company believes reinsurance pricing and loss creep have become key drivers, while capacity is not yet showing a sign of returning in abundance to dampen the momentum.

The collateralised reinsurance sidecar leaves a lot to be desired, speakers at a conference discussed recently, with the structure singled out as being cumbersome and inefficient, leading to an opportunity for anyone wanting to innovate and work to improve them.

There is a chance some carriers choose to exit certain parts of the reinsurance market if rates do not materially improve at the next sets of renewals in 2020, with some Lloyd’s players in particular finding property catastrophe underwriting uneconomical currently.

The potential for trapped insurance-linked securities (ILS) collateral positions to be transferred and traded between parties is something that has come in for increasing levels of attention ever since the losses of 2017 and 2018, but still no solution has been found.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to evolve in the wake of the major catastrophe losses of recent years and one of the most important and ongoing developments is the quest to front cedents as efficiently as possible, A.M. Best explains in a new report.

A range of minor catastrophe losses that occurred  did not significantly impact the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund market in January 2020, resulting in an average ILS fund return of 0.61% for the month and a strong start to the year.

Vida Capital, Inc., the alternative investment manager and joint-venture partner in insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset manager Merion Square Capital LLC, has named a new Chief Investment Officer who will have oversight of the firms ILS and life settlement investment activities.

Insurance and reinsurance market losses from the Chilean riots that took place in 2019 are continuing to rise and the magnitude of the industry loss, as well as the fact their size and location has been relatively unexpected in some quarters, means reinsurers are likely to be looking for hedging solutions, Property Claim Services (PCS) […]

Cyber risk modelling company Kovrr has added new insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) expertise to its advisory board with the addition of John Butler, Head of Cohen & Company’s U.S. Insurance Asset Management Platform and Global ILS Program.