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If you wanted evidence to demonstrate just how popular the insurance-linked investment universe is currently, the news which broke late yesterday that the largest investment manager in the ILS sector, Nephila Capital, is selling 24.9% of its business to private equity and buyout giant KKR & Co. L.P. (or Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), should really bring […]

There is increasing acknowledgement of the opportunity that Asian investors present to insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers and the market as a whole. To date, the contribution of Asian investors to the overall ILS and catastrophe bond investment market remains small, with around 5% of the total ILS market capital coming from investors in Asia. […]

Yesterday we revealed the news that the world’s largest reinsurer, Germany headquartered Munich Re, was working on plans to launch an insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond fund. The story generated a lot of interest, becoming the most viewed of the day, and as details were scant we reached out to Munich Re to request some […]

German reinsurer Munich Re, the largest reinsurance company in the world, is considering deepening its involvement in the insurance-linked securities market by launching an ILS fund. Munich Re are already very involved in the ILS and catastrophe bond space, as a sponsor of cat bonds regularly using ILS as a risk transfer tool, their Risk […]

In this the latest in our series of interviews with figures from the risk transfer and insurance-linked securities markets we spoke with John Seo, co-founder and managing principal at ILS and catastrophe bond investment specialists Fermat Capital Management LLC. Fermat Capital Management is one of the largest ILS investors around the globe with $3 billion […]

We’re starting to hear rumblings from a number of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond investors that the high volume of cat bonds brought to market this year is beginning to have an impact on ILS funds and investors ability to diversify their portfolios. The speed with which new deals have appeared and the appetite […]

One of the newer investment managers with a focus on collateralized reinsurance, including instruments such as catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities and industry-loss warranties, is aiming to be investor focused by matching their needs with the best opportunities in the market. Petra Haven Capital LLC is based in Charlotte, North Carolina and led by CEO Brad […]

This morning we attended Standard & Poor’s London ILS event, the ‘5th Annual European Insurance-Linked Securities Conference’. This well attended, informative event featured a number of interesting panel discussions including one involving three well known ILS investment managers discussing the increasing trend for pension funds investing in ILS and catastrophe bonds.