Insurance-linked investments

Despite the fact it is set for run-off it is interesting to note that the 2019 portfolio underwritten for the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund has delivered a 6% net asset value return in the first-half of the year to one class of shareholders.

Climate risk data should be linked to the insurance, reinsurance and risk transfer process through the use of technology and risk models, placing it and financial products at the heart of climate adaptation and resilience efforts.

Arch Insurance North America, a division of insurance and reinsurance specialist Arch Capital Group, has announced that it will acquire the technology and third-party capital focused managing general underwriter Ventus Risk Management.

Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP, the London headquartered insurance and reinsurance linked investment manager, said that its Managing Partner and Non-Life Portfolio Manager Ben Adolph is to move to the firm’s Bermuda office.

The property & casualty run-off focused insurance-linked investment fund linked to Credit Suisse and sub-advisor ILS Investment Management (ILSIM), completed a number of new transactions at the beginning of this year.

U.S. primary insurance group FedNat Holding Company has boosted its 2019-20 reinsurance program with a new treaty layer that reduces the firms second and third event retention of catastrophe losses.

The impacts of 2017 and 2018 catastrophe events on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has altered the dynamics of the space, and while volatility with loss estimates needs to be addressed, the attractive risk-adjusted returns on offer highlights the benefits of a structural allocation to the space.

As PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company LLC) ramps up its new insurance-linked securities (ILS) operations, its executives have highlighted that the relationship with parent company, insurance giant Allianz, is both a key differentiator and key to its ILS potential.

A schedule has now been set for the beginning of the share buy-backs for the listed retrocessional reinsurance investment fund operated by Markel CATCo Investment Management, with a portion of the shares of the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund set to be repurchased in September.

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