Reinsurance sidecars news

For full-year 2024, AXIS Capital ceded $323 million of prospective reinsurance premiums to its Monarch Point Re casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform, which was an increase of 13% over the prior year. In addition AXIS earned an increased level of fees and commissions from the ILS structure.

Sutton National Group has sponsored its first collateralized reinsurance sidecar issuance, a $70 million Greenshoots Re Ltd., which alongside its recent debut $100 million Greengrove Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond now provide core catastrophe cover for business written by Bamboo Ide8 Insurance Services, LLC.

AmRisc, LLC, a coastal commercial property insurance specialist subsidiary of CRC Group, has renewed its E&S property focused collateralized reinsurance sidecar named Trouvaille Re Ltd. at an upsized $580 million for the coming year, with alternative investment firm Stone Point again in support, as well as fronting specialist MS Transverse.

Reinsurance sidecars have continued to gain in popularity and brokers have commented today on the expansion of this third-party investor supported segment of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, seeing it as one area driving robust capital growth into 2025.

Global insurance and reinsurance player Everest Group has reported significantly increased cessions from its property catastrophe line of business to cells of its Mt. Logan Re Ltd. third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure in 2024.

Sven Althoff, Member of the Executive Board for Property & Casualty (P&C) of large European reinsurer Hannover Re said this morning that catastrophe bonds have been the main area of expansion for the company within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, noting that it is a “nicely growing part” of the firm’s business.

Consecutive record years of cat bond issuance, a fast start to this year, a broadening investor and sponsor base, and expansion into perils like cyber and casualty, means it’s an exciting time to be in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, according to Jason Bolding, CEO of Gallagher Securities.

Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, has now confirmed its two tranche offering of tokenized reinsurance securities that will fund its collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle Oxbridge Re NS for 2025, with 20% and 42% return targets.

Voussoir Re Ltd, the collateralized reinsurance sidecar and special purpose insurance (SPI) vehicle of Arch Capital, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance specialist, has issued and listed a new series of 2025-3 preferred shares, which marks the first listed by the structure since October 2024.

Japan Post Insurance is considering making an investment of as much as $2 billion into a new reinsurance sidecar-like co-investment vehicle to be sponsored by U.S. life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company, Global Atlantic Financial Group.