Lodgepine Capital Management

Timing of the full launch of Lodgepine Capital Management Limited, the recently established retrocessional reinsurance ILS fund management unit of Markel Corporation, may be impacted by the effect of Covid-19 on global investor allocation decisions, the company said recently.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) is seen as one of the cylinders of the insurance and reinsurance engine for Markel Corporation and the firm’s CO-CEO’s Thomas Gayner and Richard Whitt see ILS driving “increasing advantages and profitability” for the company with its leading position set to help it scale in the space.

Lodgepine Capital Management Limited, the retrocessional reinsurance ILS fund management unit of Markel Corporation, has become the first to register a vehicle under Bermuda’s recently established “Collateralized Insurer” class of company.

Markel Corporation has hired Brenton “Brent” Slade from Hamilton Insurance Group to be the President of its newly launched retrocessional reinsurance ILS fund management unit Lodgepine Capital Management Limited.

Markel Corporation has revealed its awaited new retrocessional reinsurance ILS fund management unit, which is based in Bermuda and called Lodgepine Capital Management Limited.