October 2016/1
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Stone Ridge Asset Management's three reinsurance funds grew 4 percent in its last quarterly reporting period to reach $4.95bn by the end of July, up from the $4.76bn recorded at the end of April
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CEA grows; Fema flood buy; Scales launch; Italian earthquake; Wildfire losses ease; Auto flood losses; Legacy deal for CPPIB
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Wholesale broker CRC has launched a new US nationwide all risk and catastrophe facility in partnership with managing general agency (MGA) V3 Insurance Partners.
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Sirius is investigating launching a total return reinsurer start-up that would focus on the legacy market, sister publication The Insurance Insider reported.
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Cat bond spreads dropped below 4 percent on a loss-free basis by the end of September, according to RMS, as rates continued to edge below yields recorded in 2015 and 2014.
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The cat bond market is likely to spring back from the shrinking that occurred in the first half of 2016, according to panellists at the Trading Risk Monte Carlo roundtable.
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Currency boosts RBS in ILS; Stone Ridge looks to Lloyd's; ILS Advisers gain
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Canadian asset manager Crosswinds has founded a specialty reinsurance company named Crosswinds Re to add to its involvement in the Florida (re)insurance market.
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Leadenhall Capital Partners obtained a BBB+ rating from Standard & Poor's (S&P) for two private cat bonds, in a move that will help the ILS manager demonstrate that it has a portfolio capitalised to an investment-grade level.
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Cat bond user base to shift; Axa wary on cat bonds
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Equity analysts suggested that reinsurers were being optimistic in talking up the prospect of the market finding a pricing floor in 2017, as they warned carriers might have to wait another year for flat renewals
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Reinsurance buyers could have more success in lowering rates by opening up all layers of a programme to ILS capital, rather than just trying to push minimum cat bond rates down at the top end of programmes
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Reinsurers sought to declare that the market was nearing a pricing floor as the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous kicked off the traditional lead-up to the January renewal season
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Specialist investors continue to dominate the ILS landscape but hedge funds have increased their participation after buying new issuance in the past year in response to higher-yielding deals on offer, Aon Securities said in its annual review of the sector.
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Cat bond upsizing climbed to new heights for the past year in the third quarter as the $925mn in final quarterly volume of public 144a ILS transactions came in at almost three times the $350mn originally targeted.
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Recent research has overturned the traditional assumption that there is no correlation between earthquake risk along the northern and southern parts of the San Andreas Fault in California
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Solvency II could drive increased activity in the life ILS sector as insurance companies are forced to hold more capital and look at ways of de-risking that capital, according to leading life experts.
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Parametric solutions could offer a way for the ILS market to expand into cyber risk, according to Rick Welsh, CEO at Lloyd's managing general agency (MGA) Sciemus
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The (re)insurance industry faces disruption and disintermediation as a result of new technologies, reinsurers warned at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous last month
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The reinsurance industry is dominated by talk of disruptive threats, cutting out loops in the supply chains and getting "closer to the risk".
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Aon Securities has appointed Darren Bailey to lead the company's London-based capital markets business, replenishing its UK operation after losing two staff from the unit earlier this summer.
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Continuing pressure for broader peril coverage is expected to be one of the themes of the upcoming retro renewals at 1 January, as a handful of buyers made early steps towards securing capacity.
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