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ILS investors

  • Australia's Future Fund confirmed that it had added a second manager to its reinsurance portfolio, saying this gave it the potential to increase its exposure in the future
  • Average ILS returns reached 1.03 percent in September on the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index, in the strongest monthly performance in the past two years
  • Nephila Capital is set to become the cornerstone capital provider for a start-up Lloyd's syndicate led by former Cathedral Capital CEO Peter Scales, Trading Risk can report
  • Arch has hired Scott Maries to work on its run-off vehicle, our sister publication The Insurance Insider has learned
  • Bermudian (re)insurer Endurance has been sold to Sompo for $6.3bn, it was announced today
  • Stone Ridge Asset Management's three reinsurance funds grew 4 percent in its last quarterly reporting period to reach $4.95bn by the end of July, up from the $4.76bn recorded at the end of April
  • Currency boosts RBS in ILS; Stone Ridge looks to Lloyd's; ILS Advisers gain
  • Canadian asset manager Crosswinds has founded a specialty reinsurance company named Crosswinds Re to add to its involvement in the Florida (re)insurance market.
  • Reinsurance buyers could have more success in lowering rates by opening up all layers of a programme to ILS capital, rather than just trying to push minimum cat bond rates down at the top end of programmes
  • Specialist investors continue to dominate the ILS landscape but hedge funds have increased their participation after buying new issuance in the past year in response to higher-yielding deals on offer, Aon Securities said in its annual review of the sector.
  • Markel Catco said August returns for the Catco Reinsurance Opportunities Fund would be impacted by a loss from the Jubilee oil field event totalling a 3.5 percent hit to net asset value (NAV).
  • Allianz Risk Transfer is expected to close its Market Re parametric weather bond at $30mn, below a $70mn initial target, and has shortened the duration of the deal in response to investor concerns, Trading Risk understands
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