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Australian sovereign wealth fund the Future Fund has added Kiskadee Investment Managers to its line-up of reinsurance managers, according to its website
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Mt Logan's overall assets under management remained flat in the second quarter as the vehicle took an undisclosed sum of cat losses for the period
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AlphaCat's second quarter income dropped by over a third year-on-year to $4.4mn as investors in Validus' third party capital platform took $11.96mn of cat losses in the period
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Twelve Capital has completed its third Dodeka cat bond lite for July, the $21.27mn Dodeka X issuance
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Remote risk insurance-linked investment (ILI) strategies are likely to be more insulated from competition in the reinsurance sector, Willis Towers Watson said in its latest annual Global Alternatives Survey.
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There is "unshakeable sentiment" that reinsurers and ILS investors will take significant cat losses this hurricane season, according to Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA)'s ILS head Bill Dubinsky
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Stone Ridge Asset Management reinvested a total of $172mn in various 2016 Sector Re issuances in April, up from $157.4mn pledged to the Swiss Re vehicle in 2015.
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Reinsurer sidecars delivered average increases in fair value of 1.95 percent for the three months from February to April, down from a 2.5 percent average return posted in the same period last year, according to Trading Risk calculations.
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Greater transparency in the ILS industry would benefit cedants as well as investors, according to Eveline Takken-Somers, investment director at PGGM.
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Brexit market volatility could give a minor boost of $1bn-$2bn to investor inflows into the ILS market, Fermat Capital Management co-founder John Seo said.
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Lloyd's has produced the highest average returns for catastrophe insurance investors since 2002, but the cat bond market has delivered better risk-adjusted performance, Lane Financial found in its Q2 report.
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Schroders lifted its share in Zurich-based ILS manager Secquaero Advisors to a majority 50.1 percent earlier this year after buying up an additional 20.1 percent of equity.
