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.
Fully collateralized reinsurance company Oxbridge Re continues to build its income, both from its collateralized underwriting and its investment strategy. The reinsurer reported an increase in almost every metric for the second-quarter.
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Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., the parent to Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance, has had another stunning result at its reinsurance renewal, providing a glimpse into just how much primary property focused insurers are saving on their risk transfer right now.
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As of July 2015 Bermudian reinsurance firm PartnerRe is managing $134m of third-party investor capital through its Lorenz Re special purpose insurance (SPI) vehicle, with a strategic change in direction seeing the vehicle used for its segregated account status.
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Insurance and reinsurance intermediary Aon plc has again cited the uneven deal-flow in the reinsurance convergence space, where its Aon Securities unit is the leader in ILS and capital markets transactions, as a reason for lower reinsurance revenues.
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The wealth of alternative capital currently sat in the global reinsurance space provides solutions that supplement existing, traditional coverage, according to Marsh’s U.S. Property Practice Leader, Duncan Ellis.
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Once again, third-party reinsurance capital unit Kinesis Capital Management has provided an increased profit contribution to specialty insurance and reinsurance company Lancashire Holdings, which will be welcome as the re/insurer remained disciplined in challenging specialty market conditions.
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Blue Capital Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. (BCRH), the NY stock exchange listed collateralized reinsurance subsidiary of Bermuda-based Montpelier Re, beat analyst estimates again in Q2, helping it to a 6% increase in book value for the first-half of 2015.
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Global reinsurance firm PartnerRe increased the amount of premiums ceded to its fully-collateralized reinsurance sidecar, Lorenz Re, in the second-quarter as the firm appeared to leverage the sidecar more for its own retrocession needs.
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Global re/insurer Aspen’s collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle Silverton Re has seen its long-term debt, which was issued to third-party investors, increase in value from $70.7m at the start of the year to $76.2m at 30th June, a 7.8% increase.
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The Mt. Logan Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar operated by Bermudian re/insurer Everest Re has grown its third-party assets under management by 80% in the first-half of 2015, as the reinsurer puts an increasing focus on its companion sidecar vehicle.
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