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Hurricane Irene continues to pass through the Bahamas as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane carrying maximum sustained winds of 120mph and higher gusts. The U.S. eastern seaboard is watching nervously as the forecast models continue to show a northeastern landfall of a major and dangerous hurricane Irene. Of course, everybody begins to talk about catastrophe […]

Diversification is becoming a regular theme of many of our articles as investors seek our ways to keep a good mix of perils in their insurance-linked securities portfolios. The catastrophe bond market recently found itself to consist of 71% U.S. hurricane risks, add to that the slow primary issuance and you have a difficult situation […]

In late July Azimut Holding SpA, an Italian independent asset manager, acquired a 50% stake in Swiss based Katarsis Capital Advisors SA, a financial advisor focused on the insurance-linked securities market. Katarsis Capital works in both the catastrophe investment arena and life linked securities and own a Luxembourg based fund manager Eskatos Capital Management.

This Bloomberg video interview is taken from the Washington Post website. The interview is with John Wells, chairman of Leadenhall Capital Partners. In the interview he discusses the diversification opportunities catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities present to investors and issues such as the impact of the heavy catastrophe losses seen this year and the potential […]

Plenum Investments, an investment manager with a focus on alternatives such as insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bonds, have recently been expanding the geographic reach of their flagship ILS investment fund the Plenum CAT Bond Fund.

As the primary catastrophe bond market slowed in June, with only a single cat bond transaction being issued  by Loma Re Ltd., the secondary market continued to be calm and saw insurance-linked securities investors holding onto their positions in response to the lack of new investment opportunities.

Leadenhall Capital Partners are really on a capital raising push lately. Earlier this month we reported that they’d raised an additional $50m for their Leadenhall Value Insurance Linked Investments Fund to take advantage of the 1st June renewals. Now an email from their CEO Luca Albertini tells us they’ve raised another $50m.

CATCo Investment Management Ltd. has issued an update on the progress they are making in deploying the additional capital secured from share offerings and capital raising activities in recent months and an update on their portfolio composition and performance.

The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, the public body that organises, manages and invests the retirement funds of public school employees in Pennsylvania, is to broaden their investment policy to include new asset classes according to Pensions & Investments.

Leadenhall Capital Partners has increased the size of its Leadenhall Value Insurance Linked Investments Fund by $50m to take advantage of the 1st June renewals and opportunities in the insurance-linked market. The fund invests in non-investment grade risk profile opportunities predominantly in the non-life insurance sector (P&C, motor, marine and more), including insurance-linked securities.