Reinsurance sidecars news

For global insurance and reinsurance player Everest Group, using its Mt. Logan Re Ltd. third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure is seen as preferable to sponsoring catastrophe bonds or hedging with ILW’s, according to CFO Mark Kociancic.

R&Q Insurance Holdings Ltd., the specialty player that is soon to return to its original legacy insurance and reinsurance focus, is already evaluating opportunities to launch a second collateralised sidecar vehicle, while the fee income earned from its first legacy sidecar Gibson Re rose through the first-half of this year.

Investors in mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies operated by Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based asset manager with an alternative risk premia focus, will be delighted so far in 2023, as returns accelerate and reach over 40% year-to-date in the Stone Ridge interval ILS fund strategy.

During the third-quarter of 2023, US headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation continued to expand the subject business funded by its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle, ceding additional premium to the structure.

Having significantly increased the amount of risk it cedes to retrocession partners at the start of this year, Hannover Re is now looking at the flexibility it has in the retro program and may opt to cede less to proportional retrocession partners next year, one of its Board Members said today.

Reinsurance sidecar vehicles are in favour right now, with investors liking the certainty they provide in terms of duration and seeing them as an attractive way to capitalise on a hard reinsurance market that is of unknown duration, while the returns are clearly much-improved as the majority are pitching 20% plus returns.

There is evidence from the third-quarter 2023 results of White Mountains that its re/insurer subsidiary Ark is starting to see increasingly significant benefits delivered by the $250 million Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar that it launched at the end of 2022.

In what looks to be a positive sign for its third-party investors, the Mt. Logan Re collateralized sidecar vehicle has been accepting increased levels of reinsurance premiums in 2023, while losses ceded to it by parent Everest Group are down considerably.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, ceded more premiums to third-party investors in the third-quarter of 2023, as its new Monarch Point Re casualty ILS vehicle started its build-out.

For global insurance and reinsurance group Everest, the Mt. Logan Re Ltd. third-party capital vehicle is having a strong year, with over $250 million of new capital raised and its assets under management approaching $1.1 billion.