Insurance
Hurricane Zeta onshore loss up to $5bn, offshore up to $500m: RMS
Catastrophe risk modeller RMS has now weighed in with its estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses likely to come from recent hurricane Zeta’s impacts to the United States and it’s a little higher than other modeller estimates. RMS said that it expects hurricane Zeta’s onshore insured losses will be between $3 billion and $5…
Read MoreAXA to increase capital at XL to take advantage of reinsurance opportunity
AXA reported its nine-months 2020 results yesterday and the re/insurers CFO revealed that a recapitalisation of its AXA XL unit is planned, so that it can take advantage of rising reinsurance prices. At the same time, AXA reported that its AXA XL unit is set to take an above budget level of catastrophe losses in…
Read MoreHannover Re falls to P&C underwriting loss on COVID & catastrophes
Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has reported an underwriting loss for its property and casualty reinsurance unit, as the combined ratio increased to 101.4% for the third-quarter driven by over budget major losses as the company added more COVID-19 impacts and the costs of a range of catastrophe events. Despite this and the impacts of…
Read MoreUtility Shutoffs Threaten to Worsen Pandemic Pain
I’ve been living and working at my father’s house since the onset of COVID-19, keeping him from having to venture out and risk infection. Late last week, his furnace died, and we were fortunate to have family nearby to move in with while we wait for it to be fixed. I’ve been truly grateful and…
Read MoreArch Capital completes third mortgage ILS transaction of 2020
Arch Capital Group Ltd., the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance firm, has returned to the capital markets for its third mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction of 2020, with a $418 million issuance of insurance-linked notes via special purpose insurer Bellemeade Re 2020-3 Ltd. The new issuance follows quickly on the heels of a $423 million…
Read MoreFHCF’s hurricane Irma loss creeps over 8% in 2020 to $6.5bn
The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund’s (FHCF) ultimate loss from 2017’s hurricane Irma has continued to creep higher in 2020, rising from $6 billion booked at the end of 2019 to $6.5 billion as of October 2020. At the same time, the FHCF’s ultimate loss from 2018’s hurricane Michael has not inflated at all over this…
Read MoreIntegral ILS gets cornerstone commitment from Canadian pension PSP
Integral ILS Ltd., the start-up insurance-linked securities fund manager launched by industry execs Richard Lowther and Lixin Zeng, has secured its first investor commitment, from Canadian pension giant the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments). PSP Investments manages around CAD $169.8 billion of net assets and we understand this to be the pension giants…
Read MoreLA municipal water utility seeks wildfire cover with Power Protective Re cat bond
An intriguing new catastrophe bond transaction has launched to the market according to our sources, with the $50 million Power Protective Re Ltd. (Series 2020-1) transaction being sponsored on behalf of a municipal water utility operating in the Los Angeles area of California that is seeking wildfire insurance protection. Power Protective Re 2020-1 is the…
Read MoreArch gets Enstar onboard with increased offer for Watford Re
Arch Capital Group Ltd. looks set to secure the outright acquisition of its total-return reinsurance joint-venture Watford Re, after increasing its offer and gaining the support of key shareholder and rival bidder for Watford, legacy reinsurance solutions specialist Enstar Group. Back in October, legacy insurance and reinsurance specialist underwriter and investor Enstar Group had made…
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