Reinsurance linked investment

International specialty insurer Chaucer plc has launched Thopas Re Ltd., a Bermuda domiciled fully collateralized reinsurance sidecar that will provide additional capital markets backed capacity to the firm’s Chaucer Syndicate 1084’s global reinsurance portfolio in 2018.

Munich Re has successfully sponsored and placed an almost $83.7 million tranche of Series 2018-1 participating notes from its Eden Re II Ltd. collateralised reinsurance sidecar vehicle with investors, as it sets up its retrocessional sidecar facility for the coming year.

ILS fund manager Nephila Capital has made an equity investment in newly launched multi-class and multi-territory managing general agent platform Volante Global Limited (Volante), a firm that has ambitions to help alternative capital investors broaden their reach.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 17th December 2017, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates.

Daniel Brookman is taking over the role of Head of Alternative Capital at XL Catlin, having been promoted from SVP, Alternative Capital, now stepping up to fill the vacancy left by the recent departure of Craig Wenzel.

LGT ILS Partners, the insurance and reinsurance linked securities investments unit of the private bank and asset manager, has renamed its fully collateralised reinsurer to Lumen Re Ltd. and achieved an A.M. Best rating of ‘A’ for the vehicle.

Craig Wenzel, a well-known senior executive in the alternative reinsurance capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, has departed from his current role at re/insurance giant XL Catlin to take up a position at private investment manager Gallatin Point Capital LLC.

When this year’s major hurricane losses struck the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, the last thing on most investors minds was the relative performance of their investment managers. But now, with the picture of the eventual loss clearing, many ILS investors will for the first time be able to compare their ILS manager with others in […]

Specialty insurance and reinsurance player and part of the Fairfax group Brit Ltd. has launched a new collateralised reinsurance vehicle, named Sussex Capital, which will write third-party business on a fully-collateralised basis and also assume risk from Brit’s syndicate at Lloyd’s.

Nasdaq inc. created the world’s first electronic share trading platform and stock exchange and is now among the largest providers of trading, clearing and exchange technology, so it’s intriguing to learn that the organisation is looking into new markets and that trading of reinsurance is one potential avenue of expansion.