Collateralized reinsurance news

For global reinsurance firm Hannover Re, the business of collateralized fronting, where the company fronts reinsurance cedents for ILS investors and funds, is seen as a very important element of its business and an area of growth, executive Thorsten Steinmann said this week.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund), one of the government pension investment providers, has reported an impressive 12.6% return from its investments into natural catastrophe reinsurance through catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) in the last year of record.

K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton, has maintained its overweight view on the catastrophe bond and broader insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class for the fourth-quarter, citing opportunities it sees in the market as well as the still historically high yields that are available.

With another week of insights gathered on the potential for any losses from hurricane Milton, thanks to industry loss estimates and catastrophe bond pricing, the net asset values (NAVs) of US mutual investment funds that allocate to catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) were mostly marked up again at the end of last week.

The broadly diversified portfolio of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments managed by pension investment firm PGGM on behalf of end-client the Dutch pension PFZW, delivered a 5.8% return for the third-quarter, lifting year-to-date returns to 11.7%.

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PGGM, the Dutch pension investment manager has allocated $200 million to a new quota share structure named Scenery Re on behalf of its end-client the Dutch pension PFZW, with the vehicle managed by Everest specialist unit Mt. Logan Capital Management, Ltd. (MLCM).

Having shown a divergence in manager strategies as NAVs moved in different directions at times and by different amounts as hurricane Milton approached, the US mutual investment funds that allocate to catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) diverged again at pricing on Friday, but have since stabilised having incorporated post-landfall net asset value adjustments.

Analysis from Milliman concludes that hurricane Milton will end up a relatively minor catastrophe loss event for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, based on an estimate of insurance market losses in the $20 billion to $40 billion range.

The target allocation range has been increased for a Munich Re sidecar investment that features in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolio managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager, on behalf of its end-client the Dutch pension PFZW.