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ILS investors

  • Everest Re sidecar Mt Logan's assets under management (AuM) have gone past $900mn in an increase of 33 percent from the first quarter of last year, the carrier's CEO of reinsurance operations John Doucette said on an earnings call
  • Everest Re's reinsurance division posted a 15 percent drop in underwriting profit to $173.9mn in the first quarter of 2016, following an 8 percent reduction in net earned premium to $931mn
  • Collateral lock-ups could drag down ILS investor returns by 15-20 percent of long-term expected profits for deals with a moderate chance of loss, according to research by Milliman.
  • A group of reinsurer sidecars tracked by Trading Risk posted average returns of just above 5 percent in the three months to 31 January, implying they are on track to deliver annualised returns in the low 20 percent range
  • Allied World Q1 premium drop; Ontario Teachers'sells ANV; Alternative capital hits $72bn: Aon Benfield; RMS on Ecuador quake; Record rainfall floods Texas...
  • Aeolus became one of the top 10 absolute return managers for the Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System (PSERS) in its 2015 fiscal year
  • A group of seven cat bond-only funds tracked by Trading Risk has generated an average return of 0.79 percent for the first quarter, two-thirds ahead of the Q1 2015 figure of 0.27 percent
  • Strong bidding interest on the secondary cat bond market helped to counteract the influence of seasonality in early April
  • Lane Financial estimated the ILS market's turnover rate at about 20 percent or $4bn a year, after looking at 21 months of secondary trading data filed by the industry with US regulators
  • An organised city planner might well look at a road map of the reinsurance sector and weep
  • Dutch pension fund service provider PGGM has more than EUR3bn ($3.39bn) invested in the ILS sector after recruiting several reinsurer-led managers
  • Greater volumes of aggregate cat bonds in the first quarter highlighted a shift towards more complex cover and reflected investors' desire for diversification and variety, Munich Re said in its quarterly ILS report
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