Industry loss warranty news

With the Florida reinsurance renewals fast approaching, it’s interesting to learn that indicative pricing for industry-loss warranty (ILW) protection covering hurricanes affecting the state is up significantly year-on-year, but actual market pricing may be flat or even down. Please read our update at the foot of this article.

The industry loss warranty (ILW) market saw pricing spike to levels aligned with the pre-mid year 2020 market, as attention shifts to arranging hedges and covering Florida exposures, broker Willis Re has said.

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the stock exchange listed retrocession focused strategy managed by Markel CATCo and in run-off at this time, is continuing to benefit from reducing loss exposure and releases of side pocketed investment capital.

Investment adviser City National Rochdale (CNR) explained that strong demand was seen for industry-loss warranty (ILW) capacity at the January 2021 reinsurance renewals and with capacity for this market still seen as more limited, more of the same is expected for June.

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the stock exchange listed retrocession focused strategy managed by Markel CATCo and in run-off at this time, has now seen $271.3 million of capital returned to its investors since its run-off began.

Lockton Re, the reinsurance business of the privately held independent global broking firm, has hired Simon Moore, the former Chief Underwriting Officer of CATCo, as a Senior Broker within its Non-Marine Retrocession & Property Specialty team in London.

In light of current market conditions and a heightened awareness about the hidden costs of UNL or indemnity business, it makes sense to leverage the industry loss index product, according to Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS.

Lockton Re, the reinsurance business of the privately held independent global broking firm, has announced a key hire in Bermuda, taking Thomas Parcell from Aon as its new Chief Broking Officer on the island.

Stonybrook Capital, a specialist strategic advisory and investment banking firm focused exclusively on the insurance and reinsurance industry, has developed a service to make pricing of industry loss warranty (ILW) contracts more readily available and transparent.

It’s just a matter of time before the use of industry loss triggers for risk transfer transactions broadens and is more widely used, which in turn will unlock more diversifying risk into certain sub-sectors of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, according to Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS.