AuM data

The topsy-turvy nature of the past few years for the ILS market is apparent when you look at our half-yearly surveys of assets under management.

People moves in the ILS marketplace

Further retro price increases at 1 January may not have yet produced much impact on the underlying reinsurance markets, but the true test will come at 1 June.

Deputy CIO Dan Knipe is setting up a new credit platform.

Brit has confirmed further details of the structure of its new Lloyd’s specialty fund, which will take a whole account slice of risk from its Syndicate 2988, using a corporate member investment structure.

The vehicle was set up as a Bermuda fund funnelling capital through a Lloyd's corporate member.

The fund will support its Names-backed Syndicate 2988.

He will have a similar mandate at New York-based One William Street as he had at recently-sold hedge fund BlueMountain.

The firm's originator for private debt instruments has left.

The Everest Re sidecar assumed $79.5mn of losses after Dorian and Faxai hits, up from $29mn in the same quarter last year.

Lodgepine departs from the pillared structure of Markel Catco, Markel co-CEO Richie Whitt said.

Gross written premiums (GWP) for the reinsurance and ILS division increased by 6.1 percent for the first nine months of the year to reach $823.6mn.