Lloyd’s of London news

Speaking today during Aon’s Navigating Market Cycles panel, Rachel Turk, Chief Underwriting Officer at Lloyd’s of London, the specialist insurance and reinsurance marketplace, said that the market’s London Bridge 2 PCC insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure has become an attractive place for third-party capital.

As insurance and reinsurance markets continue to deliver competitive returns, Lloyd’s of London is emerging as a focal point for investors seeking diversification and growth. However, alongside the surge in appetite for the market, particularly for exposure to fast-growing new syndicates, comes a need for careful consideration of the additional capital those businesses may require, […]

Nephila Capital, one of the longest-standing and largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers, has been approved in principle to launch Lloyd’s Syndicate 2359, its third syndicate and its first in the market to have a pure property catastrophe risk and returns focus for specialised Lloyd’s investors and capital allocators, Artemis can report.

Ariel Re is to separate out risk classes it underwrites by aligning its established Syndicate 1910 with the Bermuda ILS peer group through adopting a pure property catastrophe reinsurance focus for the vehicle, while setting up a new syndicate for the rest, the company said today.

Lloyd’s specialist Apollo has been approved to launch a sidecar-style syndicate in the market, a strategic move that highlights a desire to enhance reinsurance efficiency and to extract more value from the insurance business underwritten through its platform, for its capital partners and itself.

The Lloyd’s market continues to see strong investor appetite for access to the insurance and reinsurance linked returns that the market can generate and its London Bridge 2 insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure has become a key conduit for funds to enter the market, CEO Patrick Tiernan said today.

Nephila Capital, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has lifted the profit forecast for its Lloyd’s Syndicate 2358 for the 2024 year of account by 1.8% at the mid-point, implying a roughly $17.1 million profit based on the $150 million capacity base the syndicate had deployed for that underwriting year.

For AIG its deeper partnership with asset manager Blackstone, which was established with the launch of a multi-year reinsurance sidecar-like syndicate last year, represents a way to optimise for the most efficient capital and an opportunity to generate sizeable fee income, according to Charlie Fry, EVP Reinsurance & Risk Capital Optimization.

Global Parametrics, part of the CelsiusPro Group, has been named a Lloyd’s coverholder for Canopius Syndicate 4444, marking a significant expansion in capacity for its delivery of parametric risk transfer solutions for natural catastrophe events.

Insurance holding company Ambac Financial Group, Inc. saw its Cirratta insurance distribution division enter 2025 with more than $1.5 billion of third-party capacity, sourced from a range of reinsurance market participants and third-party investors.