Insurance

The California Earthquake Authority’s (CEA) reinsurance program has reached a new record high in terms of size at nearly $9.6 billion, which is up almost $1 billion since the January renewals. Helping in this growth is the successful issuance of two large catastrophe bond deals in 2020 so far, the $700 million Sutter Re Ltd.…

Mortgage insurers Genworth Mortgage Insurance, a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, and Radian Guaranty, part of the Radian Group, have both closed new mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuances in the last week, successfully securing $740 million of capital markets backed, collateralized mortgage reinsurance between them. Both transactions settled at the sizes previously announced, with Genworth’s $350…

Third-party sources of reinsurance capital and the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) has become increasingly important for Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance group, leading to success in capital raising for the firm. Aspen’s dedicated unit that managers third-party capital and ILS funds or sidecars, Aspen Capital Markets, lifted its third-party…

The health of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and the commitment of its investors to providing efficient and fully collateralized reinsurance capacity were displayed by the successful upsizing and completion of the California Earthquake Authority’s (CEA) latest catastrophe bond, according to Swiss Re Capital Markets. The CEA’s recently completed Ursa Re II Ltd. (Series 2020-1)…

Kettle Re is launching as a reinsurance provider utilising deep-learning and artificial intelligence to create proprietary risk models and analytics that can help it more accurately and sustainably price climate-linked exposures, starting with wildfires. Every so often new start-ups come along that combine the best of the insurance technology (insurtech) wave, with first class underwriting…

The rapid growth of ESG (environmental, social, governance) appropriate investment products is set to create a “paradigm shift” in investment markets, which could lead to more than 50% of European mutual fund assets invested in ESG funds as soon as 2025, according to PwC. In a recent report PwC highlights the stunning growth potential of…

Global reinsurance company Swiss Re is providing the underwriting capacity for a new parametric earthquake insurance product for businesses in California, partnering with insurtech Cover Genius, underwriting firm Palomar and tech giant Intuit on the launch. Shake Shield, as the parametric quick paying insurance product is being called, is the first of a number to…

Global insurance and reinsurance group Everest Re has pre-announced that it expects to report around $300 million of pre-tax and net catastrophe losses for the third-quarter of 2020. Despite these losses, which are after accounting for any retrocessional reinsurance recoveries made, Everest Re’s CEO said that the company will still report “significant net income and…