Reinsurance linked investment

Bermuda-headquartered ILS and reinsurance management, servicing, risk transformation and fronting specialist Horseshoe Group has announced two senior hires with which it aims to strengthen its growing insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund administration offering.

Arch Capital Group Ltd. would be interested in managing more third-party reinsurance capital alongside its own capacity, should the market improve significantly and present opportunities following recent catastrophe events, according to the firm’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Constantine Iordanou.

Markel CATCo Investment Management Ltd., the collateralized reinsurance and retrocessional investment fund manager, is aiming to raise at least $250 million of new capital for its stock exchange listed retrocessional reinsurance fund, to take advantage of new demand at the January renewals.

Centaur Fund Services, a fund administration service provider including to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund market, has announced the appointment of Neil MacGuinness to the role of Head of Investor Services at its Centaur Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited unit.

BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC, a diversified alternative asset manager with over $21 billion of assets, has hired well-known insurance-linked investments specialist Al Selius to run its portfolio of insurance and reinsurance linked assets.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund market has experienced its largest ever losses in September 2017, final data from ILS Advisors index of ILS funds performances shows, with the average being a decline of -9.04%.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund market has experienced its largest ever losses in September 2017, final data from ILS Advisers index of ILS funds performances shows, with the average being a decline of -9.04%.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 5th November 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.

Catastrophe losses suffered from third-quarter hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria by specialist insurance and reinsurance linked ILS asset manager Pillar Capital are evident in the results of its stakeholder financial services group Alleghany Corporation.

The impacts of recent hurricanes is evident in the latest returns of the Mercury investible Catastrophe Risk Index (or MiCRIX for short), an index that tracks the performance of a diversified portfolio of peak peril ILW’s.