Reinsurance linked investment

London-based re/insurer Novae Group plc has continued to experience strong growth in excess & surplus lines property insurance, supported by third-party capital delivered through special purpose Lloyd’s of London syndicate 6129, which it launched in partnership with ILS investment manager Securis Investment Partners.

Insurance and reinsurance linked investment management firm Twelve Capital has acted as the lead investor in a $45.5 million private debt arrangement for Catalina General Insurance Ltd., a subsidiary of Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd.

Zurich and London based insurance and reinsurance linked investment manager Twelve Capital has hired a new member to its portfolio management team to take responsibility for the firm’s catastrophe bond investment strategies.

Randall & Quilter, Bermuda based specialist non-life insurance and reinsurance investor, legacy or run-off transaction service provider and underwriting manager (among other things) is targeting growing its program business, through which it can provide reinsurance capital providers with efficient access to re/insurance risk.

Markel CATCo Investment Management Ltd., the retrocessional and reinsurance focused investment manager and part of the Markel group of companies, has announced two underwriting promotions within its executive team.

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Insurance, reinsurance and financial services group Alleghany Corporation and its reinsurer TransRe’s ownership stake and investment in specialist ILS manager Pillar Capital and its ILS funds delivered an increased contribution to its quarterly results in Q1 2017.

Financial services and insurance group Markel Corporation said that investment management fees generated by its reinsurance and retrocession linked investment manager, Markel CATCo Investment Management, rose by 30% in the first quarter of 2017.

Collateralized reinsurance investments start-up Sequant Re is looking to raise capital to back a portfolio of risks through online peer-to-peer financing exchange the OCMX.

Following a number of quarters in which Bermuda reinsurance firm RenaissanceRe has shrunk the size of its third-party investor capital backed retrocessional reinsurance vehicle Upsilon, it appears that market conditions may have been viewed more favourably in 2017 as its Upsilon RFO vehicle more than doubled in size to just shy of $400 million (on […]