Private insurance-linked securities news

Eclipse Re Ltd., the Horseshoe managed private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note, private catastrophe bond issuance and reinsurance transformer platform, has issued four more private cat bond series of notes, together totalling $277 million, which now take private cat bond issuance above $1 billion so far in 2021.

Eclipse Re Ltd., the Horseshoe managed private syndicated collateralised reinsurance note, private catastrophe bond issuance and reinsurance transformer platform, has issued four new tranches of cat bond notes, totalling roughly $45.2 million, with the four tranches potentially part of the same reinsurance or retrocession program arrangements.

Demand for alternative reinsurance capacity to support sidecars and quota share structures is outpacing supply, according to Shiv Kumar who explained that the reinsurance sidecar market has grown despite facing challenges in recent years.

Appetite for insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments is rising according to Twelve Capital’s Florian Steiger, who sees interest in catastrophe bonds as still strong despite recent tightening of spreads, while interest in peak peril private ILS and collateralised reinsurance is on the rise.

So far this year, 21 privately placed catastrophe bond transactions have been issued with a combined value of more than $672 million, which is almost double the volume witnessed for the entirety of 2020, as shown by the Artemis Deal Directory.

A new issuance of privately placed catastrophe bond notes, named after their segregated account as Aquarelle, is likely to be, at $250 million in size, the largest private cat bond or insurance-linked securities (ILS) placement ever issued.

The number of privately placed catastrophe bond transactions issued in the first-quarter of 2021 is the most ever recorded for the period and ensured that once again, the dollar-value of issuance from these cat bond lite deals came in above the ten-year average for the period.

The growth of direct quota share transactions between institutional investors and global insurance or reinsurance companies are on the rise, according to broker Willis Re.

A slew of private catastrophe bonds have had their maturity dates extended this week, as continued uncertainty related to prior period catastrophe loss activity means collateral continues to be held in case of any qualifying losses becoming applicable to the subject reinsurance or retrocession.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has been expanding its activities in life insurance-linked securities (ILS), with its life ILS volumes passing $1 billion and a recent deal tapping its Kubera Insurance (SAC) Ltd. as an issuer to transact with life ILS investors.