FT: Protectionism will help push up insurance prices, says Lloyd’s of London chief
John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies. FULL ORIGINAL PUBLICATION HERE
20 March 2025
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John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies. FULL ORIGINAL PUBLICATION HERE
Having previously said it was researching how to expand its insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocations beyond natural catastrophe risk, at a recent meeting executives of the Florida State Board of Administration explained that specialty lines, as well as casualty and cyber risks could be in scope for the large ILS allocator.
Urs Ramseier, Chief Executive Officer of insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Twelve Securis, expects significant growth in the parametric ILS market as technological advances enhance data quality, modelling, and trigger precision, creating new opportunities for business interruption coverage and protection where traditional insurance and reinsurance solutions are lacking. At the Artemis
According to a new report from King Ridge Capital Advisors (KRCA), catastrophe bonds are offering more opportunities for bond and multi-asset fund managers to diversify their portfolios, reduce correlations and improve risk-adjusted returns. “Fixed income securities have long been a foundational building block of conservative investment strategies, providing stability and
The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), a large Canadian institutional retirement fund, has expanded its investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) by approximately 39% in 2024, lifting its investments in the ILS market to approximately US $1.32 billion. The $123 billion pension fund has been allocating to insurance-linked securities
Global reinsurance company Hannover Re shared a much larger proportion of its large natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources in the final quarter of 2024, as the company ceded out more than half of its losses from hurricane Milton, with retrocessional arrangements seemingly playing a key role.
The Government Superannuation Fund Authority of New Zealand reported that its catastrophe bond and catastrophe insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments delivered a 14.7% return in the year to mid-2024, one of the strongest performing investment categories in its portfolio. The Government Superannuation Fund Authority of New Zealand is an autonomous entity
Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state’s insurer of last resort, is aiming to purchase $2.94 billion of new traditional reinsurance and catastrophe bonds for the 2025 hurricane season, which would take its total risk transfer to $4.54 billion this year. Florida Citizens still has $1.6 billion of catastrophe bonds outstanding to
Third-party capital in the reinsurance market reached record highs in 2024, as broker Guy Carpenter, alongside rating agency AM Best estimated that it reached a substantial $107 billion at year-end, however, a key driver of the increase is the continued growth of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, which is the major component
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