Insurance-linked investments

Ledger Investing, an insurance technology (insurtech) and insurance-linked securities (ILS) venture-backed start-up, has made a key hire in taking AIG’s Chief Risk Officer for North America General Insurance, Brad Fischtrom as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

As the COVID-19 pandemic impact spread around the world and through insurance and reinsurance during the first-half of 2020, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management business of Elementum Advisors, LLC was “not significantly impacted” according to key investor White Mountains.

Entropics Asset Management AB, the Swedish manager of a catastrophe bond fund, is planning to raise a new institutional investment fund strategy focused on resilience and sustainable opportunities in insurance and reinsurance.

Swiss Re wants to become the “leading franchise for Nat Cat risks” and alternative reinsurance capital is set to be a key driver of this ambition at the major global re/insurer, according to Philipp Rüede, Head of the firms Alternative Capital Partners unit.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds have just had their best June and July performance since 2011, on average, as the improving returns in catastrophe bonds and other reinsurance linked investments start to become evident in manager’s results.

Leading global credit investment specialist Bain Capital Credit, L.P, which has around $40 billion in assets under management, is partnering with Beat Capital Partners Ltd., the long duration investor specialising in the insurance and reinsurance industry, to access returns from the Lloyd’s marketplace.

Lockton Capital Markets, the unit with an alternative reinsurance capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focus at the largest independent insurance broker of the same name, has announced the appointment of Pradip Ghosh as President, effective immediately.

Markel CATCo Investment Management’ in run-off retrocession focused investment fund, the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., is to release a further $25.6 million of its trapped capital back to investors, as more positions in its side-pockets see positive reserve development.

The fact that insurance and reinsurance companies sold California wildfire related claims to third-parties may ultimately reduce the amount of subrogation recoveries that flow back to reinsurance and retrocessional interests, it appears.

Following the increased severity and frequency of wildfires, droughts and floods in recent times, the undeniable impact of climate change on water-related catastrophes is starting to get priced in and risk premiums are adjusting, according to Niklaus Hilti, Head of Credit Suisse’s Insurance-Linked Strategies division.