Cat bond market shouldn’t give “free-ride” to secondary perils: Tenax
The catastrophe bond market needs to price appropriately for so-called secondary perils and stop giving them a “free-ride”, as there is a need to continue offering this type of typically frequency or aggregate style reinsurance protection, but investors must be adequately compensated for it, Tenax Capital has said. “For insurance to fulfil its social mandate […]
Swiss Re’s alternative capital fees soar to $174m, third-party AUM hits $3.3bn
The Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division of global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has seen continued success in fundraising in recent months, with third-party capital under management rising to $3.3 billion over the course of the third-quarter. The rising level of third-party investor assets under management (AUM), at the alternative reinsurance capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) […]
ADB moots issuing cat bonds, as it proposes CAREC disaster insurance facility
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has drawn up a plan for implementation of a disaster risk insurance facility for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, for which insurance-linked securities (ILS) would be seen as an important source of reinsurance capacity and it has even mooted issuing them itself. The member countries to the […]
Пройдено курс “The Fundamentals of ILS: online course” від компанії Phoenix CRetro Limited
У квітні 2023 року компанія Phoenix CRetro Limited, курс якої «The Fundamentals of ILS: online course”, був визнаний переможцем за версією Global Insurance Awards 2023, проводила навчання за цим курсом. Єдиним представником українського страхового ринку, який пройшов навчання, успішно склав іспити та отримав відповідні сертифікати, був Директор департаменту перестрахування та андерайтингу спеціальних ризиків СТРАХОВОЇ КОМПАНІЇ […]
Conditions primed for increased use of alternative reinsurance capital: GC’s Rousseau
Reinsurance market conditions are primed for an increasing turn towards alternatives, in sourcing capital and risk transfer solutions, according to Laurent Rousseau of Guy Carpenter. Speaking at an event in Baden-Baden yesterday, Rousseau, the CEO of Europe, Middle East & Africa and Global Capital Solutions at the reinsurance broker, explained that demand for alternative capital […]
Parametric sovereign risk pools to explore joint reinsurance facility, capital markets access
In what could turn out to be a ground-breaking development, parametric disaster insurance risk pools African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC), the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), and the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF), have signed an MOU and will explore a joint reinsurance facility to […]
ILS Asia 2023: Education still critical in relatively untapped region
Yesterday’s Artemis ILS Asia 2023 conference marked our first in-person return to Singapore and the Asian region since 2019 and while there are marked differences in the conversation surrounding insurance-linked securities (ILS) and the use of reinsurance capital, it is clear the region remains relatively untapped, on both an investment and risk basis. It has been […]
Augment launched as bespoke reinsurance broker with up to $100m backing from Altamont
A new, bespoke risk capital and reinsurance solutions broker called Augment has been launched to “revolutionize insurance risk arbitrage,” and is backed with up to $100 million in funding from private equity firm, Altamont Capital Partners. Augment states that its goal is to assist partners in managing volatility via strategic, structurally efficient, multi-class and/or multi-geography […]
An Italian cat bond “would be snapped up”, says Tenax Capital’s Figna
Speaking to a local Italian daily newspaper, Massimo Figna, founder and CEO of hedge fund manager Tenax Capital, explained that with insurance penetration extremely low, Italy would benefit from the use of catastrophe bonds, which he believes investors would “snap up.” Tenax Capital is a London-based investment manager that Figna founded and it offers a […]
Reask plans US and model coverage expansion, additional funding raised
Reask, a tech company that provides catastrophe modelling, climate analytics and data using machine learning techniques and artificial intelligence, is set to expand to the United States and will use the now $6.55 million seed funding it has accumulated, as it looks to expand its extreme weather modelling services. Reask has raised another $4.6 million […]