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Swiss Re now ranks 2011 ahead of 2005 as the costliest catastrophe year ever for insurers, according to the reinsurer's latest Sigma report.
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The ILS market is maintaining discipline even as strong demand pushes down pricing, participants at the inaugural Sifma Trading Risk roundtable argued.
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Dion Williams from law firm Taylor Wessing explores some of the issues investors in the latest generation of sidecars should be aware of
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Reinsurers are likely to pursue third party capital structures with longer-term horizons such as cat funds or permanent sidecars in 2013, while the number of temporary, opportunistic sidecars looks set to diminish, a panel of experts agreed at the annual Sifma ILS conference.
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The future of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is looking increasingly uncertain as the US residual insurance market heads toward the reinsurance renewal season.
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The ILS market's track record does not yet reflect the true "tail risk" nature of the asset class, research firm Conning warned in a new report on the market.
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Reinsurers provided a varied account of the 1 January renewals as they reported their 2012 results, with the most bullish putting US rate movements at +5 percent while others suggested that rates were down
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Although significant institutional capital may be sitting on the "sidelines" of the alternative reinsurance market other factors are preventing more pension funds from being attracted to the space, fund advisers say.
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Reinsurers such as Everest and XL have said their expansion into funds management would not cost their existing investors, as analysts quizzed them during the February reporting season on how these moves would affect their business.
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The spotlight is already shining strongly on the highly attractive $3bn Florida market ahead of the 1 June renewals as a series of developments stoke reinsurance demand.
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Segregated accounts companies (SACs) and special purpose insurers (SPIs) have been a considerable boon to Bermuda's insurance industry, but are they being used to their full potential? Appleby's Tim Faries and Brad Adderley look at the options
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US property catastrophe pricing was roughly flat at 1 January as the recent losses from Sandy and ample capacity pulled the market in different directions, according to reinsurance brokers Guy Carpenter and Willis
