Collateralized reinsurance news

Today we are delighted to announce our final group of new expert speakers for our catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in London on Tuesday September 3rd. Tickets for Artemis London 2024 are selling fast, so please register now if you want to attend.

Over the first-half of this year, US headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation ceded fewer premiums to its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, despite the vehicle remaining the same size in capital terms for 2024.

The management of fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance are praised for the rapid and determined response to the issues that arose when the company found itself caught up in the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by Vesttoo, according to rating agency KBRA.

Two more series of private catastrophe bond notes have been issued by the Artex Capital Solutions managed Eclipse Re Ltd. vehicle, with these new deals amounting to almost $12.5 million in risk capital, taking total private catastrophe bond issuance for 2024 so far to nearly $400 million, according to Artemis’ data on the cat bond […]

There are now only two weeks to go until our catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in London on Tuesday September 3rd. Tickets for Artemis London 2024 are selling fast, so please register soon if you want to attend.

Capacity is increasing across the range of private insurance-linked securities (ILS) products, as fund managers and reinsurers have benefited from new inflows to structures and investors look to access the strong reinsurance market returns that are available, rating agency AM Best has said.

Backed by a private investment group, Northern Re is a reinsurance firm that views itself partly as a hybrid insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager, enabling its insurance company partners to access the benefits of ILS capacity without the usual contractual stipulations required by other collateralized providers, according to co-founder Peter McKelvy.

Hamilton, the Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance holding company, has been generating a helpful addition to its earnings from performance fees earned by its Ada Capital Management third-party capital platform and its Ada Re collateralized reinsurance and retrocession underwriting vehicle, in recent quarters.

With the day of the event approaching quickly, we are delighted to announce another four expert speakers for our catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in London on Tuesday September 3rd. Tickets for Artemis London 2024 are starting to sell fast, so please register soon if you want to attend.

Global reinsurer Hannover Re has seen continued success in its business servicing and facilitating transactions in the collateralised reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in the first-half of 2024, with it notably beating its own full-year record for catastrophe bond limit fronted for already this year.