Collateralized reinsurance news

Bermuda-headquartered AXIS Capital has teamed up with investor Stone Point to launch Monarch Point Re, a newly created collateralized reinsurer that has been capitalised by a more than $400 million raise and will operate as a kind of third-party capitalised casualty reinsurance sidecar structure, with a total return approach.

The appetite of investors to fund reinsurance strategies, be they traditional equity-backed reinsurers, or insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures, is a key determinant to how long the current hard market will last, AM Best has said.

It’s increasingly clear that the ongoing difference of opinion over ownership or control of property rights to segregated cells and accounts linked to them, that were used for reinsurance deals facilitated by Vesttoo where letters of credit (LOC) were found to be fraudulent or forged, will need a definitive court ruling to be decided.

Investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS), particularly on the private ILS and reinsurance side of the market, can be enhanced with a continuation of the prudent approach to underwriting currently being seen, Marcel Grandi, Head of ILS Sourcing at Twelve Capital told us.

In a response to objections made to the bankruptcy court by Vesttoo and the unsecured creditor committee, the joint provisional liquidators (JPL’s) to the affected cells of the Aon White Rock SAC vehicle have said arguments made objecting to their application for Chapter 15 relief are “meritless”.

This video features the fifth session of the day at our recent Artemis ILS Asia 2023 conference, held in Singapore on July 13th 2023, a fireside chat discussion with William Ho, the CEO of MS Amlin Asia Pacific, and Head of Reinsurance (Asia) for MS Amlin.

Porch Group, a software driven financial services group with a homeowners insurance arm, continues to proactively strengthen its business to recover from exposure to the Vesttoo-linked letter of credit (LOC) collateral fraud that affected certain reinsurance deals its Homeowners of America Insurance Company (HOA) subsidiary had entered into.

Nascent Group, the insurance management and reinsurance transformer company launched by industry stalwart Andre Perez that aims to reimagine the insurance-linked securities (ILS) servicing space, has agreed its first acquisition with Bermuda Compliance Consultants Ltd.

Asset manager Amundi US continued to grow its more recently launched Pioneer Cat Bond Fund strategy in the last quarter of record, with catastrophe bonds seemingly remaining the easiest strategy to raise money for, as its more reinsurance focused Pioneer ILS Interval Fund shrank a little further, albeit at a much slower rate than before.

The judge in Vesttoo’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has called for all sides to “stop litigating and start cooperating” to find a common ground on key issues that have been holding back progress at a hearing yesterday.