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One of the largest events in the financial market calendar is the GAIM Conference which was held at its usual location in Monaco last week. The event which covers the hedge fund and alternative investment management sector has increasingly seen a presence from those involved in the reinsurance and insurance-linked investment space, including investors and […]

Insurance-linked security funds have continued their recovery during May, after April saw insurance-linked securities investment fund managers achieve their best performance of 2012, May has seen them beat that performance with even better returns. The average ILS fund was up by 0.52% in May, compared to 0.42% in April, bringing the year to date figure […]

Last Friday we wrote about the pressure that recent inflows of non-traditional capacity from capital market investment sources have placed on the traditional reinsurance market in Bermuda in our coverage of an analyst report on the Bermuda market. Now we’ve noticed that the Royal Gazette have covered similar comments from some of Bermuda’s top re/insurance […]

The global reinsurance sector was strong enough to emerge from the disaster struck year 2011 with its capital base largely intact, according to a report from rating agency Standard & Poor’s. In general S&P believe that global non-life reinsurers hold excess capital relative to their rating levels, however they do note that the level of […]

According to data from hedge fund news and information provider Opalesque, ‘alternative alternatives’ investment funds were largely down during the month of April. Their Opalesque A Square Fund Database clocked a general decline of 0.41% over the month. Largely the losses came from commodity sectors among the 699 single and multi-manager funds that they track. […]

Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd., a mutual insurance company who specialise in providing insurance for electrical utilities, have increased their investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (specifically catastrophe bonds) through ILS investment manager Anchor Risk Advisors. Nuclear Electric Insurance were one of Anchor’s initial investors and by growing their allocation to the sector are showing their commitment […]

The month of April saw insurance-linked securities investment fund managers achieve their best performance of 2012 as the average ILS fund was up by 0.42% bringing the year to date figure to 1.09%, according to measurements of the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index. April was the strongest month for the index since its launch in March […]

Anchor Risk Advisors, an investment manager focused on the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe risk investment sector with one of the longest track records in ILS thanks to its teams experience, has announced the appointment of BNP Paribas to provide hedge fund administration services for its latest insurance-linked investment strategy. With the appointment Anchor are continuing […]

Bermuda based Validus Holdings has joined forces with U.S. hedge fund manager John Paulson and his Paulson & Co. hedge fund to launch a new Bermudian Class 4 reinsurer called PαCRe, Ltd. PαCRe, Ltd. will have an initial capitalisation of $500m to write reinsurance and launches in time for the 1st June mid-year renewals. PαCRe, […]

Hedge fund data and performance information provider, Eurekahedge, have teamed up with newly formed Asia based insurance-linked securities investment consultant, ILS Advisers, to put together an index which tracks the performance of the included insurance-linked investment funds. It’s the first index of its kind which allows investors and interested parties to analyse how the overall […]