Investments

Private equity and alternative investment giants of the world are increasingly demonstrating why access to insurance premium float, as a form of assets under management, is an attractive prospect, with KKR’s acquisition of Global Atlantic the latest clear example. It also shows their appreciation for bringing third-party capital into re/insurance. As we explained when the…

Global insurance and reinsurance player Everest Re ceded fewer premiums to its Mt. Logan Re Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar-like vehicle in the second-quarter of 2020, although for the first-half cessions are still up by 13% compared to the prior year. This represents a change in the timing of cessions to the Mt. Logan Re sidecar…

Global Parametrics, the parametric and index-based disaster risk transfer company, has structured a windstorm derivative transaction for a business on remote South Atlantic island Tristan da Cunha, with the deal backed by capacity from the UK Government’s Department for International Development, through the Natural Disaster Fund (NDF). The windstorm derivative features a custom index and…

Rising reinsurance prices have growing momentum behind them, as the sector comes under increasing pressure from losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, while at the same time capacity in the market has been constrained, according to Fitch Ratings. Discussing the strong and dominant business profiles of the big four European reinsurance players (Munich Re, Swiss…

In renewing its $2.1 billion reinsurance and catastrophe bond program for 2020, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) paid some 19% more in terms of overall rate-on-line (ROL) compared to the prior year. Reflecting the hardening of reinsurance rates, particularly in catastrophe exposed property lines that have faced losses in recent years, TWIA’s reinsurance renewal…