Montpelier Re

After successfully closing its latest fundraising placement of new shares netting its flagship reinsurance-linked investment fund an additional $52m, Blue Capital Management, the third-party capital management arm of Bermuda based reinsurer Montpelier Re, has now had the new shares in its Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund Limited dual-listed on the London and Bermuda stock exchanges.

Blue Capital Management, the third-party capital and reinsurance-linked fund management arm of Bermuda based reinsurer Montpelier Re, has been raising new funds for its flagship listed catastrophe reinsurance and retrocessional linked investment fund Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund Limited. The fund launched a prospectus in April for the first of a series of placing’s of new […]

Bermuda reinsurer Montpelier Re announced its Q1 2013 financial results today and revealed the contribution that its Blue Capital Management third-party reinsurance capital and reinsurance-linked fund management arm has made to its premiums written for the quarter. Blue Capital accounted for $14.6m of added property catastrophe treaty reinsurance premiums of the total $226m premiums written […]

Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund Limited, the Montpelier Re backed listed catastrophe reinsurance linked investment fund, has published its first prospectus in its push to raise more funds. As we wrote back on the 21st March here, Blue Capital will pursue a series of placings of new shares in the fund to accommodate new investor […]

The Montpelier Re backed Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund will look to pursue a series of placings of new shares in the company to accommodate new investor inflows as part of a fund-raising push. The fund, which invests in catastrophe exposed fully collateralised reinsurance-linked contracts and other ILS type investments, launched in December having raised […]

Here’s some more evidence which shows the appetite that large independent investment managers have for reinsurance as an asset class right now. F&C Asset Management, a London Stock Exchange listed investment house, has increased its allocation to the Montpelier Re backed Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund to now hold just over 15% of the funds […]

The first fund launched by Bermudian reinsurer Montpelier Re’s investment management subsidiary Blue Capital Management has provided an update on their progress after the January renewals. The Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund which launched and listed on the London and Bermuda stock exchanges on the 6th December last year has successfully deployed 58% of the capital raised […]

Investment manager Baillie Gifford, who are headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, are one of the many asset managers who have allocated capital to the reinsurance-linked investment space. Demonstrating that reinsurance and catastrophe risk is currently an attractive addition to their broad portfolios, Baillie Gifford have taken 10% of the shares from the initial offering made last […]

The shares issued as part of the successful initial offering from newly established reinsurance-linked investment fund the Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund have been admitted for trading on the London Stock Exchange’s Specialist Fund Market (SFM) this morning. The 100,100,000 of Ordinary shares (worth $1 each) are to be dual listed in Bermuda and are […]

Bermudian reinsurer Montpelier Re is moving into the reinsurance-linked investment arena with the launch of their Blue Capital asset management platform and successful launch of their first offering the Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund which raised $100.1m in its first share offering this week. Montpelier Re and Blue Capital see this new venture as an opportunity […]