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Knowledge and understanding of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class is on the rise in Asia, and while local expertise is a real benefit, it’s also vitally important to communicate early and persistently with the investor base, according to industry experts.

The fragmentation of the Asia region means that for insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers, it’s more practical to focus on the locations with the more mature and larger institutional market, according to Timothy Yip, Executive Director at ILS Advisers.

Bermuda based investment management firm ILS Capital Management, Ltd., which specialises in delivering its clients investment opportunities in collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities, has announced two new hires to its team. The firm which was established in 2011 by reinsurance industry veteran Don Kramer has been focused on raising capital, and aims to launch its […]

Swiss insurance-linked securities investment manager Plenum Investments may target UK retail investors with its catastrophe bond fund if there is sufficient interest to bring the fund there, according to comments from Plenum’s chief executive Rainer Grünig. Quoted in the FT Adviser, Grünig said that the Plenum CAT Bond Fund, which is currently available in Swiss […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has published a report looking at where investors have been showing the most interest in deploying capital in the reinsurance sector after the catastrophes of 2011. S&P says that despite the record natural catastrophe losses that the re/insurance industry suffered in 2011, financial investors were largely uninterested in supporting a […]

We love a bullish quote here on Artemis and veteran reinsurance industry exec Don Kramer has provided one at the Bermuda Captive Conference which has been held over the last few days on the island. The CEO of ILS Capital Management, Kramer is quoted in this Royal Gazette article as saying that he is ‘seeing […]

Reinsurance broker Willis Re have noticed a change in the way new capital has been entering the reinsurance sector. Capital continues to be drawn into global reinsurance they say in their Willis Re 1st View April Renewals Report, but on a different basis to previous years when startup reinsurers would have been the dominant vehicle […]

Activity in the secondary catastrophe bond market was muted in December as many of the investors involved in the insurance-linked securities space turned their focus to collateralized reinsurance opportunities and the January renewals, says Plenum Investments, a Zurich based investment manager with a focus on the ILS asset class.

The secondary market for catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities saw moderate trading activity during the month of October with some activity being sparked by the new cat bond issuances that came to market. Often when new deals launch investors adjust their portfolios to keep their diversification optimal and to allow them to take on some […]

Swiss based boutique finance and investment house with a focus on insurance and risk linked securitization Secquaero Advisors Ltd. has been featured in a number of articles in the German press in the last week or so. The articles demonstrate the increasing interest in insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond investment opportunities around the world, as […]