ILS to go from strength to strength: Brad Adderley, Appleby

The twin, positive impacts of rising prices and much improved terms means that the hardening market environment isn’t going away anytime soon, suggesting ever-increasing success for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, according to Brad Adderley, senior partner in Appleby’s Bermuda office who has been involved in a significant number of ILS transactions. Poised to surpass…

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Tremor exceeds $1bn of limit, completes property cat renewal for W. R. Berkley

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…

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2020 catastrophe bond & related ILS issuance to exceed $16bn this week

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…

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Madagascar takes up new African Risk Capacity parametric cyclone insurance

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…

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Longevity risk transfer nears record. 2021 to be busy again despite pandemic: WTW

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…

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Start-ups seen to maintain reinsurance industry price discipline: KBW

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…

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Best of Artemis, week ending 20th December 2020

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 20th December 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm,…

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