All of our news and analysis on the retrocessional reinsurance marketplace.
Retrocession is effectively reinsurance for reinsurers, so a tertiary layer of risk transfer away from the original risk, if you consider primary, reinsurance and then retrocession.
As reinsurance is insurance for insurers, retrocessional, or retro, protection is reinsurance for reinsurers.
The retrocession reinsurance market has increasingly come to depend on the capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS).
As of mid-year 2022, global retrocession capacity has been estimated to be as high as $60bn, around $20bn of which is indemnity based and the rest in other formats.
The alternative capital markets and ILS funds, or investors, play a significant role in global retrocession, as too do instruments such as catastrophe bonds and industry-loss warranties (ILW).
Aspen has now priced and finalised its latest catastrophe bond issuance, securing $300 million of multi-peril retrocessional reinsurance from the upsized Kendall Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) transaction.
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In a further sign that catastrophe bond pricing could be at or approaching the bottom, for now at least, while Aspen has significantly increased the target size for its new Kendall Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) transaction to as much as $300 million, the pricing for both tranches of notes has risen relatively significantly as well.
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The portfolio of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension investment manager that allocates the largest amount to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market on behalf of end-client the Dutch pension PFZW, has shrunk in size by roughly 6% over the first-quarter of 2024.
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Having recently spent time meeting with the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at the SIFMA annual conference in March and caught up with other market participants since, we come away with a feeling that the ILS market remains keenly focused on holding onto gains made in recent years, with no ambition to revert back to the […]
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The giant more than $9 billion portfolio of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension investment manager that allocates the largest amount to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market on behalf of end-client the Dutch pension PFZW, delivered a record 18.9% return in 2023.
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New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager Stone Ridge has now grown its mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy assets under management (AUM) back to above $4 billion for the first time since 2020.
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Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited is back in the catastrophe bond market for a second renewal of its international multi-peril catastrophe bond coverage from the capital markets, targeting sponsorship of a $150 million Kendall Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) transaction.
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Nephila Capital, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager owned by Markel, is in the catastrophe bond market seeking $100 million or more in aggregate industry-loss index based retro reinsurance for its flagship Lloyd’s syndicate 2357, through an Atela Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) cat bond issuance.
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Target allocation ranges have been adjusted for some of the investments that make up the giant insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolio managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager, on behalf of its end-client the Dutch pension PFZW.
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According to the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index, the average return of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds it tracks was the second strongest on record for February, coming in at 1.04% for the month.
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