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Swiss ILS managers, Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) and Clariden Leu, have seen $700mn of new fund inflows, Trading Risk can reveal.
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Swiss investment manager Secquaero Advisors plans to launch a new Luxembourg ILS fund under its UCITS III-compliant platform set up by Decision Analytics.
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The market share of dedicated cat funds in new ILS offerings has fallen by 30 percent since 2008 to comprise under half the market in 2010, recent research by Munich Re has shown.
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Investment bank JPMorgan completed an innovative longevity hedge last month, but the next health check for the pension risk transfer market will come when the bank tests investors' appetite for picking up reinsurance on the deal
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Expansive ILS manager Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has launched a new extreme mortality investment fund, with capacity in the firm's IRIS suite of funds rising to $3.5bn, Trading Risk can reveal.
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Collateralised reinsurance fund manager Catco invested almost 100 percent of its $80.4mn start-up capital at the 1 January renewals, just weeks after launch
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Capital continued to flow into the convergence sector in 2010, as a benign natural catastrophe loss environment and evidence of non-correlation with the broader financial markets caught the attention of both institutional and retail investors.
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Newly minted Bermuda-domiciled catastrophe fund Catco has raised $80mn through an initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange.
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Capacity in Credit Suisse Asset Management's (CSAM) IRIS insurance-linked funds has hit $3bn and continues to rise, Trading Risk can reveal.
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Hedge fund manager DE Shaw's Class 3 Bermudian reinsurer is operating with impaired capacity for the 1 January collateralised renewal season as investor redemptions take their toll on assets under management, Trading Risk understands.
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Swiss banks Clariden Leu and Falcon Private Bank have launched UCITS III cat bond funds, hoping to raise $200mn and up to $500mn respectively, Trading Risk can reveal.
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Insurance-linked fund managers are waiting on tenderhooks to discover the initial capital amounts that will be deployed in the convergence market by a number of institutional investors over the coming months.
