mergers & acquisitions

Artemis can reveal that specialist ILS manager Twelve Securis is the seller of a seasoned portfolio of life insurance-linked securities (ILS) that Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (HSCM) is acquiring through the launch of a new fund, with this deal demonstrating the increasing sophistication of market players and growing maturity of the ILS sector.

Speaking last week after the announcement of Sompo’s plan to acquire Aspen Insurance, executives from the Sompo side explained that the integration will expand the opportunity set for Aspen Capital Markets investors, while the business intends to continue pursuing a capital light model leveraging third-party capital.

Sompo Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will acquire insurance and reinsurance group Aspen Insurance Holdings in a deal valued at $3.5 billion, while it cites access to alternative capital through the Aspen Capital Markets unit as a key benefit and a “highly differentiated product offering.”

Lewis & Ellis, Inc. (L&E), a national actuarial consulting firm, has acquired Huggins Actuarial Services, Inc. (Huggins), a provider of property & casualty (P&C) actuarial services, in a move that enhances L&E’s position in traditional P&C markets while accelerating its capabilities in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space.

Moody’s Corporation has agreed to acquire CAPE Analytics, a provider of geospatial AI intelligence for residential and commercial properties across the United States, Canada, and Australia.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market should become more streamlined and professionalised if mergers and acquisitions (M&A) consolidate players, which Stonybrook Capital believes can help in attracting more institutional capital to the sector.

According to Hilary Paul, Partner and Portfolio Manager, LGT ILS Partners, there will be further insurance-linked securities (ILS) M&A consolidation in the near term, with more transactions and join-venture agreements, especially as stand-alone managers increasingly seek economies of scale and access to rated paper.

Euler ILS Partners Ltd. has been launched as a new independent insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager by Niklaus Hilti and the team that was formerly Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies, after their management buyout of the company has been completed.

SIGLO Capital Advisors AG, a Swiss based alternative asset advisory specialist with an insurance-linked securities (ILS) practice, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm.

Miller, the independent and private equity funded broking group, has announced the acquisition of a European capital advisory focused broking business that has operated at the intersection of reinsurance and capital markets, with Marc Hannebert’s 4809 Brokers AG now its third continental European purchase.