London Bridge 2 PCC Ltd. is the second UK regulated protected cell company to be established by the Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance market for insurance-linked security (ILS) uses.
With London Bridge 2 PCC, Lloyd’s is making it easier for participants in its market to transact with insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors and to bring in alternative forms of capacity, from the capital markets, to assist their business.
The range of transactions that the new London Bridge 2 PCC can enter into is much broader than Lloyd’s first ILS structure, extending the usefulness of the vehicle and answering a lot of the requests that had been coming to the market from participants and investors.
Des Potter, a Special Advisor for Lloyd’s and a former Guy Carpenter executive and ILS specialist, has asserted that Lloyd’s has “a pivotal role to play” in restoring investor confidence in the ILS class via its London Bridge 2 platform.
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London market insurance and reinsurance players need to be able to attract and efficiently deploy third-party capital, if they are to take advantage of the growth opportunities available to them, rating agency AM Best has said.
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Global reinsurance company Ariel Re continues to seek new and efficient ways to enhance its capital-base, with the latest example a $270 million raise to support 2023 expansion, $170 million of which is channelled via Lloyd’s London Bridge 2 PCC insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure.
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The sixth session at our Artemis London 2022 conference featured a panel discussion on the potential for London to build-out an increasingly vibrant hub for catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) activity.
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The fifth session at our Artemis London 2022 conference featured a keynote speech from the CFO and COO of Lloyd’s, Burkhard Keese, who explained Lloyd’s evolving approach to insurance-linked securities (ILS) and appetite to expand its use of ILS structures, to supply third-party capital to the market.
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Investing into the Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance marketplace through its insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure has “unique capital efficiency” and Bill Cooper of TigerRisk believes the initiative could attract billions in funds from capital market investors.
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The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), an organisation that looks to create consensus on issues of note and share knowledge in the alternative investments sector, has highlighted Lloyd’s managing agents as an entity similar to an asset manager.
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Specialty reinsurance firm Ariel Re has cited allocating capital to the Lloyd’s marketplace, through an entity such as itself, as a “compelling alternative to ILS investment manager fund structures,” as it announced becoming a Signatory of the Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI).
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The new Lloyd’s sponsored protected cell company that was announced last week, London Bridge 2 PCC Ltd, represents “an efficient mechanism” for both existing and new investors to access risk from the Lloyd’s market, according to Clifford Chance.
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The announcement today of a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure for the Lloyd’s of London insurance and reinsurance market brings much greater flexibility to the way Lloyd’s participants can access the capital markets and investors access risk from underwriters in the market.
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