Insurance

Winter storm Uri is destined to become a record insurance and reinsurance market loss for a winter weather event in the United States and while the impacts may be in the double-digit billions of dollars, the ILS market may be protected from too significant a share. A number of factors could play into this, such…

While the entry of third-party, or alternative, reinsurance capital slowed after recent heavy catastrophe years and resulting challenges they brought, those difficulties also “affirmed the persistence of third-party capital owners,” rating agency AM Best has said. Third-party capital has increasingly found its routes into the reinsurance market becoming easier, more efficient and with reduced friction,…

France headquartered global reinsurance firm SCOR noted this morning that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is creating the conditions for stronger reinsurance growth, alongside positive pricing dynamics, which it puts down to a general increase in risk aversion as a result of the pandemic crisis. In reporting its annual results this morning, SCOR revealed an increase…

Twelve Capital, the Zurich headquartered insurance and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, has almost doubled the size of its flagship UCITS catastrophe bond fund in a year. At the end of January 2020, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager had reported that the Twelve Capital’s Cat Bond UCITS fund had reached $550 million in assets…

The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has lifted its target size for its first catastrophe bond transaction of 2021, now seeking up to $215 million of fully collateralized earthquake reinsurance protection with the Ursa Re II Ltd. (Series 2021-1)  issuance. When this latest catastrophe bond from the CEA launched to investors a few weeks ago it…

The North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCIUA) is back in the catastrophe bond market with its first issuance of 2021, a currently $100 million Cape Lookout Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) transaction that will sit in the higher layers of its reinsurance tower. The North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCIUA) is a coastal property insurance underwriting…

Conduit Re, a Class of 2021 reinsurance start-up that raised its close to $1.1 billion of capital in an initial public offering (IPO) and listing before it had even underwritten any business, got off to a “flying start” according to its Executive Chairman Neil Eckert. Conduit Re’s parent Conduit Holdings reported its first set of…

U.S. primary insurance giant Allstate has revealed that it expects to receive around $605 million in subrogation recoveries on claims related to the California wildfires, with a significant percentage already booked. Previously, Allstate had reported $450 million of PG&E related subrogation related to California wildfires claims, which included subrogation due on claims arising from the…

Just nine months into its life, the latest insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund launch from Plenum Investments AG, the Zurich based specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond investment manager, has surpassed $100 million of assets under management. Plenum Investments launched its Plenum Insurance Capital Fund, a UCITS ILS fund that will allocate to both catastrophe…