Reinsurance linked investment

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the listed, retrocession focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy managed by Markel CATCo Investment Management, has recovered more value for its investors, with favourable development related to 2017 and 2018 catastrophe loss events.

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Joel Smith, Associate Partner at Synpulse, a global management consulting firm, has argued that digitizing processes and information exchange represents an important first step towards improved collaboration for insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers.

Investment manager Twelve Capital has explained that it believes the insurance and reinsurance sector has positive attributes as an investment asset class for 2022, with both macroeconomic and idiosyncratic tailwinds expected to drive returns this year.

Markel CATCo Investment Management has announced a sweetening of the terms of the buyout process for its retrocessional reinsurance investment funds, after a settlement was reached and more investor support for its winding down was received.

Markel Corporation has full-confidence in the ability of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist manager Nephila Capital to deliver results over the long-term and looks forward to realising more synergies with the ILS operation, according to Co-CEO Richie Whitt.

Hannover Re faced more challenging market conditions when placing the renewal of its retrocession program at 1/1, resulting in a shrinking of protection, with its capital markets backed K-Cessions quota share sidecar facility declining 26% to around $450 million.

Assets under management at Markel’s flagship insurance-linked securities (ILS) operation Nephila Capital dropped by roughly $1 billion during the second-half of 2021, as the effects of natural catastrophe activity and redemptions dented the ILS fund managers scale.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds reported only a 0.05% return for December 2021, taking the annual ILS fund return to just 0.85% for full-year 2021, according to the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index.

The previously announced sale of ILS fund manager Nephila Capital’s managing general agency (MGA) Velocity Risk Underwriters LLC to funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. has now completed.