reinsurance

According to equity analysts at investment bank and financial services specialist TD Cowen, companies in the London insurance and reinsurance market still consider ILS and alternative capital as largely peripheral, believing that it is traditional capital that drives most price pressure in the sector.

Asia is expected to see a steady and continuing increase in insurance-linked securities (ILS) activity, with regionally tailored catastrophe bonds likely to become more of a feature, as heightened climate awareness drives a need for risk transfer and reinsurance, Fitch Ratings has said.

As discussions begin regarding the upcoming January reinsurance renewals, the question of how disciplined ILS managers will remain on contract structures looms, with Cahal Doris, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Private ILS, at Twelve Securis suggesting that ILS managers would be wrong to give away structural improvements at 1/1.

Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, has said that two tranches of tokenized reinsurance securities that fund its collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle for 2025 remain on-track to deliver attractive returns. But the prior year vintage of the tokens appears to have been impacted by losses due to hurricane Milton.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has now finalised its insurance industry loss estimate for the severe flooding experienced across parts of Central Europe and Italy in September 2024 due to storm Boris, lowering the total by almost 2% to €2.153 billion.

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Over time, capital market investors are expected to play an important role as a key element in ensuring there is sufficient cyber reinsurance and retrocession capacity, to support the expansion of cyber insurance limit around the globe, Moody’s Ratings has said.

If the Atlantic wind season continues to be relatively benign for the global reinsurance market there is a chance property catastrophe rate declines at 1/1 2026 may reach into the 15% to 20% range, analysts at Citizens JMP Securities have said. But even then, given the high-level that rates are softening from, the situation is […]

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager, has announced the hire of a new Reserving Actuary, with Jammy Chow joining the company from his most recent position working for Swiss Re Canada.

In the wake of its announcement that Swiss Re is bringing together its insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment management operations under the Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC) brand, Artemis spoke with senior executives from the Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division of the reinsurance company.