Reinsurance linked investment

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 26th March 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.

The Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund, the London and Bermuda stock exchange listed reinsurance linked investment fund managed by the Endurance owned Blue Capital Management, has announced it is to redeem almost $13.14 million of shares from its investors.

Securis Investment Partners has increased the size of its special purpose Lloyd’s of London syndicate 6129 joint venture so it can underwrite $130 million of U.S. excess and surplus lines property business in 2017.

Reinsurance and retrocession linked investment manager Markel CATCo Investment Management has again taken advantage of soft market pricing to increase its own retro balance-sheet hedging, largely through the purchase of industry loss warranties (ILW’s) for 2017.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 19th March 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.

Nephila Capital’s syndicate 2357 at Lloyd’s of London began to pick up risks through the State National program business arrangement in 2016, as the largest manager of reinsurance linked assets switched away from one of its collateralised vehicles as the program grew.

Independent Zurich based insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond fund manager Plenum Investments Ltd. has announced that its flagship fund, the Plenum CAT Bond Fund, has now grown its assets to beyond the $150 million level.

Allied World Assurance Company’s (AWAC) relationship with Aeolus Capital Management Ltd. helped the firm offset a decline in operational cash flows in 2016; with distributions from Aeolus increasing to $406 million while the re/insurer’s commitment to the partnership remained relatively flat.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 12th March 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.

Large and institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurers, family offices and endowments, have increased their allocations to alternatives in 2016 and are seeking diversification within alternatives, which should be positive for insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds.