Insurance

With thoughts turning to the key mid-year reinsurance renewals and negotiations already underway for many Florida domestic insurance carriers, rating agency Demotech has warned that nine carriers need to report “markedly improved operating results in 2021” to sustain their current rating level. Following up on its warning ten days ago that Florida’s insurance marketplace needs…

Insurance and reinsurance broker Miller, the newly independent and private equity funded broking group, has announced the launch of a Bermuda arm that will have a retrocession and ILS focus, as well as the hire of retro broking specialist Charlie Simpson from Aon to lead the unit. Miller was recently taken private after it was…

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has been expanding its activities in life insurance-linked securities (ILS), with its life ILS volumes passing $1 billion and a recent deal tapping its Kubera Insurance (SAC) Ltd. as an issuer to transact with life ILS investors. In fact, Hannover Re’s expanding life ILS operations are seen as an opportunity…

Bermuda headquartered ILS fund and investment manager ILS Capital Management, has said that it expects that industry losses suffered from the recent winter storms and Arctic blast in the United States will drive renewal rates higher at the mid-year and also further into 2022. The ILS investment manager revealed an expectation that, at an industry…

A research study from Oxford University has found that adopting at least four views of risk can make a significant difference to catastrophe insurance underwriting performance, which presumably also applies in the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) worlds. The study found that widespread use of four risk models, rather than one, would “build a much…

For investors looking to access pure, short-tail property catastrophe re/insurance risk, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund format is likely the optimal solution, according to Michael Stahel, Partner at LGT ILS Partners. Today, there’s more ways than ever for investors to deploy capital in their search for insurance and reinsurance linked returns. And, with all the…

Global insurance and reinsurance giant Zurich increased its use of and received strong support from reinsurance and retrocessional capital sources in 2020, ceding US $8.6 billion of property and casualty (P&C) premiums to them across the year. That’s slightly more than a 10% increase from the US $7.8 billion of P&C related premiums that Zurich…

Speedwell Group, a long-time specialist service provider to the weather risk management and parametric risk transfer market, has formalised its tropical cyclone risk related settlement services, providing further options for those looking to structure cat-in-a-box or similar parametric wind insurance, reinsurance or swap deals. Speedwell said it has received significant demand for a formalised settlement…