Insurance

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has appointed Grant Maxwell as the new Global Head of Alternative Risk Transfer within the unit of the global insurance and reinsurance player. At Allianz, the AGCS Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) line of business provides corporate solutions, reinsurance, and climate solutions, including weather risk transfer, parametric insurance and structured…

Arch Insurance, the primary arm of Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance player Arch Capital Group, has promoted Krista Bonneau to the position of Senior Vice President of Ceded Reinsurance, giving her responsibility for buying across the protection programs of the company. Bonneau was most recently Vice President of Ceded Reinsurance for Arch Insurance. She joined…

Arbol, a provider of marketplace technology that utilises smart contracts, has now sold $11 million notional in weather risk transfer contracts through its platform in the first four months since it began trading live transactions. Arbol completed an acquisition of well-known specialist provider of weather risk transfer and weather hedging solutions eWeatherRisk back in April,…

Italian primary insurance company UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A. demonstrated a long-lasting commitment to engaging with the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market with its recently completed EUR 100 million Azzurro Re II DAC (Series 2020-1) catastrophe bond, according to executives at Willis Re. With the successful placement of the Azzurro Re II DAC cat bond transaction, UnipolSai secured…

Even in the face of Covid-19, the resilience of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has been impressive, but moving forward, the entire risk transfer industry needs to be more attentive to emerging complex risks, says Benny Chey, Assistant Managing Director (Development and International), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). In his opening speech at the virtually…

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., the insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance and transportation focused investment manager, has announced the departure of Partner Simon Fascione who will leave the firm on September 30th. Simon Fascione has been a Partner of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. and also the Chief Investment Officer of the firms insurance and reinsurance…

French global reinsurance company SCOR has reported an estimated EUR 456 million of losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic booked in the second-quarter of 2020, with retrocession support helping the company in managing the burden, particularly on the P&C side of its business. In reporting its first-half results this morning, SCOR said it has undertaken…

Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has reported what it calls a “significant addition” to its loss reserves for the Covid-19 pandemic, taking the total first-half 2020 hit from the coronavirus to $2.5 billion. As a result of this impact, Swiss Re said that it expects to report a net loss of approximately $1.1 billion for…

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., undertaking its insurance and reinsurance investment business as HSCM Bermuda, has co-led a $24 million Series A investment round for home and auto insurtech firm Branch. Branch is a technology-driven home and auto insurance company that aims to streamline the quote and bind process, by eliminating the sometimes lengthy traditional insurance…