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Typhoon Faxai losses are unlikely to have a significant impact on the ILS markets, based on current industry estimates.
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Ratings agencies remain positive on reinsurers boosting their use of retrocession to grow, despite this year’s capacity crunch in the retro segment. -
Fourteen cat bonds with a combined value of $1.18bn are expected to be a full loss following 2017 and 2018 losses, Trading Risk understands.
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The handful of reinsurers to disclose third-party fee income lifted this source of earnings by almost a third year on year in the second quarter.
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M&A activity has made analysing structural conflicts in ILS platforms harder but winners may be those that offer a range of means of access to risk, consultants say.
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Most reinsurers lifted their exposure to major cat losses heading into 2019, with net written premiums rising further early this year, ratings agencies noted.
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The momentum for rate increases has built up in a delayed reaction to losses.
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Typhoon Jebi creep continued to have an impact on performance, with multi-instrument ILS funds reporting an average loss of -0.78 percent for the quarter.
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Activity in the first half of the year was the lowest since 2011.
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Ten months on from Typhoon Jebi, there is still considerable uncertainty around why the storm’s insured losses are expected to be so much higher than the initial modelled figures.
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The ILS market has broadly welcomed moves by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) to create a new collateralised insurance vehicle, but opinions vary on whether the new rules will prove to be onerous.
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The industry’s market heavyweights remain split amongst different types of ownership models.
