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.
Keystone ILS Capital, a structuring and advisory specialist focused on catalysing more active use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) in Japan that was launched in the country by former Aon Securities executive Shinji Yamamoto, has received an investment from broking group Howden and appointed Carsten Thienel as a Senior non-executive Director, Artemis can report.
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There are only nine days to go until our catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in Singapore, ILS Asia 2024, which takes place on July 11th at the Suntec Convention Centre. Here are details of the now more than 80 organisations attending the conference. Get your ticket to attend here.
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With numerous forecasters warning of a very active Atlantic hurricane season this year, some insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets eased off somewhat at the June 1st and July 1st, 2024, reinsurance renewals, which led to a little bit of a squeeze in places like Florida, according to James Vickers, Chairman, Gallagher Re International.
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Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has continued to add more capital to its mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies in the last quarter of record, reaching over $4.4 billion in net assets across these registered funds by the end of April this year.
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There was increased demand for retrocessional protection around the mid-year reinsurance renewals, as existing buyers sought to purchase more retro and some historical buyers returned to the market, according to Guy Carpenter.
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The reinsurance sidecar market has continued to expand through the second-quarter of 2024 and broker Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions team estimates that over $1 billion of capital has entered this proportional collateralized reinsurance market in the last year.
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The amount of alternative capital in the reinsurance industry has reached another new high at the middle of 2024, with capital allocated to alternative and insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures now reaching $110 billion, according to Aon.
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Markel has announced the promotion of Phil Schmidt to the role of Chief Strategy Officer, a position that will see him tasked with leading initiatives that bring together and realise synergies from the insurance and reinsurance related units of the company, including insurance-linked securities (ILS) operation Nephila Capital.
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The agenda is now complete for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in Singapore, ILS Asia 2024, which takes place on July 11th at the Suntec Convention Centre. Register soon if you want to join us.
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The Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees’ Pension Plan (SHEPP) saw it’s allocation to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class via managers Aeolus Capital Management and Nephila Capital deliver an impressive 26.4% return in 2023.
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