ILW news

Tremor’s weekly auctions of industry loss warranties (ILW’s) are gaining traction, with around $100 million of capacity available every week and spreads now narrowing fast as the reinsurance and retrocession markets harden.

Everest Re, the global insurance and reinsurance firm, has been buying hedging protection in the form of industry-loss warranty (ILW) coverage in 2020, while catastrophe bonds and its Mt. Logan Re collateralised reinsurance vehicle also continue to play a key role in its protection for the all-important hurricane season.

Hiscox Group, the Bermuda headquartered re/insurer, has acquired additional retrocessional reinsurance protection against peak catastrophe risks with a $100 million slug of industry loss warranty (ILW) based protection secured in advance of the all-important hurricane season.

Head of PCS, Tom Johansmeyer, tells Artemis that there’s a real sense across the marketplace that certain large, complex insurance towers are going to be affected by silent pandemic risk.

Retrocessional reinsurance focused fund manager Markel CATCo Investment Management and tech focused hedge fund investor with a liking for reinsurance-linked returns D. E. Shaw & Co. are involved in a dispute over a release of collateral related to industry-loss triggered derivative contracts, we have learned.

For our third Artemis Live audio and video interview I had the pleasure of discussing the state of the market with Paul Schultz, CEO of Aon Securities, the capital markets, investment banking and insurance-linked securities (ILS) structuring arm of the insurance and reinsurance broker.

For the second Artemis Live audio and video interview I was delighted to speak with Frank Majors, co-CEO and President of Nephila Holdings, and a Director of insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager Nephila Capital.

We’ve launched a new audio and video feature that will see us talking with leaders of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance industry and broadcasting them via our YouTube channel.

Tremor Technologies Inc., the technology-based programmatic risk transfer marketplace provider, has already cleared a trade in just the second holding of its new weekly auctions of industry loss warranties (ILW’s).

City National Rochdale’s industry loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund grew during the last quarter and saw “positive opportunities” at the January reinsurance renewals, with an expectation of the ILW market seeing dynamic conditions and improving returns.