KaylaRe Ltd

The premium investment float generated by total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd. continued to grow in the first-quarter, promising an increasing return on the asset side of the reinsurer, but fee income delivered to parent Enstar declined due to lower performance from the ceded business in the period.

Insurance and reinsurance specialists Enstar Group has acquired the remaining 52% that it did not own of total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd. from fellow founding investors Hillhouse Capital Management, Ltd. and the Trident V funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC.

Insurance and reinsurance specialist Enstar Group has confirmed that its total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd. softened the blow from third-quarter hurricane catastrophe losses, as the firm said that its quota share agreement with KaylaRe reduced the impact by $22.7 million.

Total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd. is set to lessen the impact of recent hurricanes for its sponsor, insurance and reinsurance specialist Enstar Group, shouldering a portion of the group’s losses through its quota-share with StarStone.

Total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd. has driven higher fee income again for its sponsor, insurance and reinsurance specialist Enstar, as the strategy begins to acquire scale, as cessions made to KaylaRe build up and the investment float continues to accumulate.

The contribution made by total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd. to insurance and reinsurance specialist Enstar is growing, as the strategy begins to scale up offering efficiency benefits across the business for the firm.

At the end of 2016 total return reinsurance vehicle KaylaRe Ltd., launched by Enstar, Hillhouse Capital Management, and Stone Point Capital recently, already had $350 million of investments in a fund managed by Hillshouse, thanks to reinsurance transactions with Enstar subsidiaries.

Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance group Enstar has launched a new $620m total return reinsurer named KaylaRe Ltd., alongside investment manager Hillhouse Capital Management, Ltd. and financial services equity investor Stone Point Capital LLC.