Reinsurance linked investment

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 2nd July 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.

Growth in insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked assets under management slowed at U.S. mutual fund manager Stone Ridge Asset Management during its last reported quarter, with its net ILS assets increasing by just 4% to $5.7 billion by the end of April.

Once again, slight impacts were reported for some ILS funds in May 2017 due to U.S. severe thunderstorm activity, as the average returns of the insurance-linked securities (ILS), pure catastrophe bond and reinsurance-linked investment fund sector came in at 0.19% for the month.

The Pioneer ILS Interval Fund, a U.S. mutual fund insurance-linked securities and reinsurance linked investment strategy operated by asset management giant Pioneer Investments, has seen its assets under management jump to $305 million by April 1st, a 25% increase in a three month period.

Further disruption is coming to the insurance and reinsurance industry, with advances in technology set to stimulate a shift to some form of trading and placement of new classes of risk more directly with alternative capital and ILS investors, a shift that could be driven by InsurTech efforts both inside and outside of the ILS […]

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 25th June 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.

A new report published by rating agency Standard & Poor’s suggests that reinsurance firms may be looking at the state of the market with a sense of deja vu, as they realise they face another year of declining reinsurance rates.

Cartesian Re, the reinsurance and ILW focused investment management unit sponsored by global private equity investment firm Cartesian Capital Group, LLC, is expanding its access to investors using a multi-pronged approach including a new Luxembourg domiciled fund, a U.S. mutual fund and a Bermuda listed vehicle.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 18th June 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.

Specialist insurance and reinsurance linked investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners has grown its ILS assets under management to a new high at $4.2 billion, a considerable 20% increase from the end of last year.