Insurance-linked investments

The Bank of England has committed to action in support of an orderly transition to a carbon neutral economy for the United Kingdom, seeking to “mainstream climate risk management” in the financial sector and encourage broad disclosure of climate-related risks.

The majority of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds are expecting their asset base to grow by more than 10% over the next five years, according to the results of a survey of the ILS market.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., the insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance and transportation focused investment manager, has led an investment round for automotive insurtech Noblr.

Today we’re pleased to announce the full agenda for the upcoming fourth instalment of our annual insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in Asia, ILS Asia 2019, today. With tickets selling fast make sure you register soon to guarantee your place at the event.

Risk transfer is often overlooked in discussions relating to climate change and adaptation to it, as instruments including weather risk transfer and catastrophe reinsurance are able to send price signals to help public and private sector entities better understand the economic value at risk.

Twelve Capital, the Zurich headquartered insurance and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, is targeting continued growth of its assets within its own-brand insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond funds.

Specialist mortgage insurance company Essent Guaranty has returned to the capital markets to further expand its collateralized mortgage reinsurance protection with a $333.84 million Radnor Re 2019-2 Ltd. transaction that will be its third mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance.

Falcon Fund Management (Luxembourg) S.A., an investment management subsidiary of Switzerland-based Falcon Private Bank, is aiming to increase its activities in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, partnering with Solidum Partners AG for its ILS fund management.

The use of efficient capital from the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, along with advanced technology and expanding amounts of data, can help the world in addressing climate risk, comments by Barney Schauble, Managing Principal at Nephila Advisors suggest.

PIMCO’s set-up of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) operations continues apace we can report, with infrastructure now in place including an ILS fund, into which capital has already been raised, as well as the registration of a reinsurance vehicle Newport Re Ltd.