Insurance linked securities news, ILS news

After an internal review conducted by outside legal counsel was completed, Markel Corporation says that the review found no evidence of “bad faith in exercising business judgment” by Markel CATCo personnel when it came to setting loss reserves in late 2017 and early 2018.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 14th April 2019, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Alternative risk transfer and ILS mechanisms in the global property and casualty (P&C) market are expected to become more commonplace in the months and year ahead, according to law firm Sidley Austin’s Global Insurance Review.

The City National Rochdale Select Strategies Fund (CNRLX), an industry loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund, managed a 6.6% annual return in the year to Jan 31st 2019, while its assets under management increased in the last quarter as well.

Radian Guaranty has now completed its second issuance of mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS), citing a pleasing response from investors to its $562 million Eagle Re 2019-1 Ltd. that secures it additional reinsurance capacity from the capital markets.

Typhoon Jebi has already become the loss creep story of 2019 so far, but it’s set to become an even higher profile case as a rising industry loss estimate for the storm means it’s now expected that a number of industry loss warranty (ILW) contracts will payout.

Alternative sources of capital now contributes at least 4% of the global non-life insurance and reinsurance market’s roughly U.S. $2 trillion capital base, according to Swiss Re.

AP3, the Swedish state sector pension fund, has been investing in catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked assets since 2008 and the investor increased its allocation to the ILS sector in 2018, while the asset class delivered a positive return despite the catastrophes.

Over the last two decades, the capital structure of the reinsurance business has fundamentally shifted, driven by the forceful nature of third-party, or alternative reinsurance capital, according to Aditya Dutt of RenaissanceRe.

Catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) premium rates can now be considered to be in a hard market, making now a good time to invest in the asset class, according to analysis from ILS focused consultancy Lane Financial LLC.