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AlphaCat and Mt Logan Re significantly expanded their premium base throughout 2015, as their parent reinsurers continued to build out their asset management platforms.
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Sidecar returns remained in the mid-to-high teens on an annualised basis in 2015, although softening was still apparent.
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The January reinsurance renewals saw diverging outcomes for the US and non-US markets, as Guy Carpenter's global property catastrophe rate-on-line index fell 8.8 percent from a year earlier.
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The retrocession market registered a significant softening of terms and conditions in the January renewals as specialty lines of business were increasingly covered alongside property catastrophe risk.
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The decade-long major US hurricane landfall "drought" since Hurricane Wilma struck in 2005 has been highlighted by the meteorological community, catastrophe modellers and the insurance sector alike as extraordinarily rare
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For any ILS transaction, the structure of the trigger mechanism is critical to determining whether a sponsor receives a loss payment following a catastrophe event, thereby causing a loss to investors
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A change in US reserving rules kicked off the year in the life sector, causing a crunch in the number of reserve financing and embedded value (EV) financing deals, according to Milliman
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The ILS funds market caught the M&A fever seen across the traditional reinsurance sector this year as its rate of growth significantly slowed
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The record-setting 2014 was always going to be a hard year for the cat bond market to follow in terms of business volume
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Last month Trading Risk revealed that Credit Suisse is hoping to tap into the ILS market to help insure its operational risks, such as a possible cyber attack or a rogue trader incident.
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The task force established by the London Market Group to develop the UK as a centre for ILS transactions is facing competition from other "onshore" jurisdictions seeking to rival the established "offshore" ILS locations such as Bermuda and Guernsey.
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Trying to compare returns available from primary insurance business to the reinsurance market is like comparing apples to oranges.
