Investments

Tremor Technologies, the insurtech offering a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has now exceed $1 billion of limit placed, after it completed a renewal placement of W. R. Berkley’s property catastrophe reinsurance tower. Tremor has now helped its clients place a significant amount of risk with sources of reinsurance capital over the…

The catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) is set to pass another milestone this week, as Artemis’ data on the cat bond and ILS marketplace will count over $16 billion of annual issuance for the very first time in 2020. Within our Artemis Deal Directory, the most extensive publicly available source of information on…

The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a provider of parametric disaster insurance products to countries and now other entities in Africa, has launched a parametric tropical cyclone insurance product for African nations and Madagascar has become the first to take it up. It’s taken a long time to get to this stage, as a parametric tropical…

The market for longevity swaps and longevity risk transfer has hit forecasted volumes in 2020 despite the implications of the global COVID1-9 pandemic and Willis Towers Watson believes another busy year is ahead in 2021. The longevity de-risking market, where pensions transfer their longevity risk to global reinsurance markets, has proven resilient in 2020 and…

According to executives from Bermuda-based reinsurance companies and brokers that met virtually with analysts from KBW, the wave of new private equity backed start-ups are so far being seen to maintain the reinsurance industry’s price discipline as the key January renewals approach. Discipline is a key factor in how successful the reinsurance market is in…