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Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced the hiring of William Thuell to its Bermuda underwriting team as an Assistant Vice President.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has announced a new research partnership with natural disaster focused risk analytics firm RED – Risk Engineering + Development, in which implications of earthquake sequences will be explored.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, grew its assets under management considerably in time for the key January renewals, lifting the total by more than 40% to reach a new high of $5.5 billion.

The latest vintage of the life and annuity focused reinsurance sidecar structure launched by Athene Holding Ltd., the life and retirement reinsurance company majority owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global, has received its ratings and we understand the investor commitments to it are expected to roughly double.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the Bermuda based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager, has been the beneficiary of fresh investor client inflows in advance of the mid-year renewals, we understand, taking its overall assets under management (AUM) to $3.9 billion.

Global Atlantic Financial Group, the US life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company, has now closed on a successful more than $2.4 billion third-party capital raise for its second reinsurance sidecar structure, Ivy II.

Japan Post Insurance is set to make an investment into a reinsurance sidecar-like co-investment vehicle sponsored by United States life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company, Global Atlantic Financial Group.

Athene Holding Ltd., the life and retirement reinsurance company majority owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global, now has access to more than $7 billion of deployable capital to purse “attractive growth opportunities” following the first close of the Apollo / Athene Dedicated Investment Program II with around $2 billion in capital commitments.

Brookfield Reinsurance, the Bermuda-based reinsurance entity of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the giant Canadian headquartered alternative asset manager, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire specialty re/insurer Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.1 billion.

Kuvare Holdings, a technology-enabled specialist in life and annuity insurance and reinsurance solutions, has become the latest company in this space to launch a sidecar-like venture, that will bring a complementary source of capital from third-parties to help it expand its underwriting business.