Reinsurance linked investment

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.

Resilience Economics Ltd. has been launched today by Cedent Ltd., as a new corporate finance advisory specialist focused on climate risk solutions, with an initial $500 million of capacity backing provided by strategic partner Nephila Capital Ltd.

Singapore has ramped up its focus on developing an insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, taken the radical step of offering an ILS grant that will fund 100% of the upfront costs incurred in issuing catastrophe bonds in the country and setting up a working group to explore opportunities for the country in ILS.

Tangency Capital Ltd. is a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) start-up venture that has been founded by three experienced ILS and reinsurance convergence focused executives and will focus on helping its investors to access opportunities in insurance and reinsurance, from offices in Bermuda and London.