Insurance-linked investments

In an interview with the Financial Times today, Lloyd’s of London CEO John Neal forecasts significant growth for the global insurance and reinsurance market, with the perception of risk set to drive a potential doubling in spend in a decade.

Amundi Asset Management US, Inc. (Amundi US) aims to develop its newly launched Pioneer CAT Bond Fund into a strategy that can deliver double-digit returns in the current catastrophe bond market environment, while charging its investors a lower level in fees, Artemis has learned.

Howden Tiger, the reinsurance arm of the Howden Broking Group, has brought together its Legacy and Investment Banking operations under the combined leadership of Jarad Madea, CEO, Howden Tiger Capital Markets & Advisory (HTCMA).

In a new report, rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has highlighted the much improved outlook for reinsurance-linked returns, through its comments on the big four reinsurers.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Twelve Capital has adopted a defensive stance in the face of the market volatility caused by the financial market upheaval, although the company believes insurers are much better positioned than banks at this time.

The crisis being seen in banking sectors, most prominently with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and sale of Credit Suisse to UBS, is not a crisis of the insurance sector, and there are no fundamentals to support the recent revaluation of insurance debt, Plenum Investments has stated.

The “denominator effect” and investor rebalancing across asset classes has driven some of the biggest challenges for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in recent months, Chris Parry, Global Head of Capital Partners at RenaissanceRe, told us in our latest Artemis Live interview.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is seen as at a crossroads in the wake of hurricane Ian, although ILS capacity has still expanded and the catastrophe bond market is seen as the best positioned segment, rating agency AM Best has said.

A number of mortgage insurance-linked securities, or mortgage insurance-linked notes, transactions have had their credit ratings upgraded, as the fundamentals related to them improved on faster pay-downs have helped to build up credit enhancement associated with them.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is moving to a place where the non-cat component can expand, and if the market wants to grow over the long-term, more risk will need to come in, according to industry experts.