Reinsurance linked investment

There were no major changes to Conduit Re’s retrocession arrangements around the middle of this year, but the company is always keeping other third-party capital partnerships such as sidecars under review, CEO Trevor Carvey has explained.

The Schroders Capital insurance-linked securities (ILS) team has successfully increased its ILS assets under management (AUM) to a new high of $5.5 billion by the end of March, representing approximately 25% growth in just one year.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has continued to recognise higher fee income from its work with third-party investors in the second-quarter of 2024, with more fees earned through risk-sharing relationships with so-called strategic capital partners.

Despite the recent spread widening seen in catastrophe bonds, K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton, continues to favor the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class and cat bonds in particular remain its top-pick sub-strategy, while its conviction on private ILS and retrocession has risen.

Enstar has completed a legacy reinsurance deal for an insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolio of 2019 and 2020 written business, which it has hailed as the first deal of its kind for a third-party capital platform and looks like the kind of trapped capital solution that many in the ILS market have explored in recent years.

Two important pieces of insurance-linked securities market merger and acquisitions (M&A) news came to light last week, both of which provide signals for those watching of the health of the sector and investor appetite. But there is also a signal of the desire for scale, to be competitive in offering a broad suite of risk […]

Issuance of private catastrophe bonds, or cat bond lites, has now reached $357.6 million in 2024, after two more privately placed insurance-linked securities (ILS) arrangements came to light from the Artex Capital Solutions managed Eclipse Re Ltd. structure.

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It’s rare to find two asset management businesses that you can combine and not face friction, or loss of clients, but in the case of the merger of reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment managers Twelve Capital and Securis Investment Partners, the overlaps only add to the strength of the new entity, according to Urs […]

Artemis has learned of two new private catastrophe bond issuances from Mangrove Risk Solutions Bermuda Ltd., the platform operated by Marsh McLennan and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, with just over $39.5 million in risk capital issued across two zero-coupon transactions.