ILW news

The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has authorised the first licence for its insurance regulatory sandbox, giving it to Akinova, the start-up aiming to launch a marketplace for the transfer and trading of insurance or reinsurance risks.

The industry loss warranty (ILW) market offers an attractive investment opportunity at this point in time, as market dynamics have reduced available capacity, meaning fewer coverage providers exist right now and ILW returns are on the rise.

Results announced this morning by global reinsurance firm SCOR confirm the loss creep trend we’re expecting to see from Japanese typhoons Jebi and Trami, as the company revealed a EUR 53 million hit to profits.

Hurricane Michael’s wind speeds at landfall in Florida have been upgraded by the U.S. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center scientists in their final tropical cyclone report, now estimating them as having reached Category 5 at 160 mph.

Rob Procter, the co-founder of Securis Investment Partners, the independent London-headquartered insurance and reinsurance linked investment manager, has been assigned to the advisory board of Akinova, having also made an investment in the start-up.

The City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund (CNRLX), an industry loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund, managed a 6.6% annual return in the year to Jan 31st 2019, while its assets under management increased in the last quarter as well.

Typhoon Jebi has already become the loss creep story of 2019 so far, but it’s set to become an even higher profile case as a rising industry loss estimate for the storm means it’s now expected that a number of industry loss warranty (ILW) contracts will payout.

Indicative pricing for certain types of industry-loss warranty (ILW) backed retrocessional reinsurance protection has been on the rise, with Florida wind and as a result U.S. all natural perils seeing the largest increases of in advance of the mid-year renewals.

AkinovA, one of the insurtech start-ups targeting provision of a marketplace for digital trading of reinsurance risk, has selected Aquis Technologies to provide it with necessary matching engine and compliance related software.

Digital risk trading insurtech start-up Akinova has secured an investment boost from reinsurance firm Hiscox Re and the venture arm of Japanese insurance holding company MS&AD.