Investors
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Gordon was set to join start-up brokerage Juniper Re last month.
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The new global bond fund can take a ‘marginal allocation’ to cat bonds.
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The fund is a continuation vehicle for five of HSCM's life insurance interests.
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The platform’s ILS holdings comprise cat bonds and UCITs funds, and were up 8% over January and February.
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The fund will follow an existing Twelve strategy and add short-term corporate bonds.
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The Cayman Islands entity raised $2.4mn last June.
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ILS platform London Bridge II has had a good year as volumes reached $750mn, the CFO said.
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Head of alternatives Gareth Abley believes the asset class remains attractive following a 16% return in 2023.
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The firm was founded in 2015 to help clients raise capital.
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The asset manager’s largest ILS allocation across two multi-strategy funds is to a Leadenhall fund.
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The fund will promote environmental and social characteristics under Article 8 of the SFDR.
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The asset manager’s flagship ILS funds posted stellar returns for its 2023 fiscal year.
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TRUE will use the capital injection to provide underwriting capacity in Florida “at a crucial time” and to expand its footprint nationally, according to a statement.
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The US pension fund investor had altered its ILS portfolio, with a new investment to Pillar in 2021.
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This latest funding round brings total committed capital for the collateralized reinsurer to $75mn.
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Research by Kepler Absolute Hedge showed that seven out of the 10 best-performing alt credit funds were cat bond strategies.
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As of year-end 2022, the fund’s largest ILS allocation was in a RenRe fund.
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The fund has been adapting its investment strategy in light of inflation and rising interest rates.
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Stress-test numbers were increased to 112, including scenarios of losses in multiple years, up from 105.
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The fund is on course for its strongest year of returns since inception in 2014.
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The IOP will be integrated into the Open Protocol reporting template.
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A challenge facing the industry in the years to come is the question of how can it move through a rotation of its investor base to capture the growth opportunities that have arisen.
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Ambassador was set up in 2021 with Embassy Asset Management the named investment adviser.
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Interest income also boosted the results, with net assets of $9mn rising to $10.8mn by the half-year point.
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The transaction covered a portfolio of $250mn in casualty risk premiums.
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The pension fund is seeking a strategy with “low or negative correlation to public equity”.
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The firm has moved to defend its plans against a rival strategy supported by a small group of investors.
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The manager has gained increments from existing investors and inflows from new ones.
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The asset class is finding favour particularly with allocators that have been watching returns play out over the long-term horizon.
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The firm identified market inefficiencies in its analysis of loss data.
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The new higher-rate world brings the threat of some investors staying in a risk-off mentality.
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The securitised reinsurance tokens require a minimum investment of $20,000 in the US and $2,500 outside of the US.
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Fermat’s John Seo divided the potential incoming capital broadly into “fast” and “slow” capital.
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The ILS manager said the cat bond sector could double to become a $70bn market in the next three to five years.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM) Bermuda has set up an insurance credit strategy seeded with $400mn of initial capital from Security Benefit Life Insurance Company.
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The ILS manager’s analysis highlighted that Lloyd’s nat cat exposure had lowered over the six years to 2021.
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The investment analysts wrote that market dislocation offered an opportunity to invest on attractive historic yields.
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For the ILS market, perhaps more than any other, the outcome of this year’s high inflation is still to be determined. Unlike other industries that are suffering increased immediate costs, this sector’s performance – as always – is ultimately driven by events no one can foresee.
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ILS strategies specialist Siti Dawson is moving from LGT ILS Partners.
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Frontier Advisors said sentiment continues to be challenged by performance.
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Ludlow Re will grow “opportunistically” where there is confidence of producing attractive returns.
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The major ILS investor described 2023 opportunities as attractive but said they were set to get more selective in the industry.
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Buyers are more open than ever to different sources of capacity, but the timing of entry will not be on the industry’s terms.
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Hurricane Ian could present a challenge for ILS fundraising conversations this autumn if ILS firms do not find more financing solutions to manage trapped capital, according to panellists at Trading Risk New York 2022 last week.
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Some are suggesting a rotation of the investor base may be underway, with a move back towards more opportunistic funds.
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HSCM Ventures partner Vikas Singhal will join the Inclined board.
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The implications for the Abu Dhabi investor’s billion-dollar ILS portfolio are not yet known.
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The fund’s allocations to general and life insurance investments have grown year over year.
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