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ILS investors

  • Returns from a group of ILS funds tracked by Trading Risk were down by a third last year on 2014, as rates continued to stabilise in the ILS market.
  • Validus has announced that assets under management (AuM) at its third-party capital platform AlphaCat Managers reached $2.4bn as of 1 January, more than 70 percent higher than at the same point a year ago.
  • Pioneer's ILS Interval fund returned 5.9 percent for the first 10 months to the end of its financial year on 31 October, according to its first annual report
  • Stone Ridge Asset Management reported annual gains ranging from 4.06 percent to 8.33 percent for its three reinsurance funds in the year to 31 October 2015, while returns from its cat bond funds almost halved, according to the manager's latest annual reports.
  • Leadenhall Capital Partners has hired former Markel International analyst Joel Milnes and Swiss Re life insurance actuary Craig Gillespie
  • The ILS funds market caught the M&A fever seen across the traditional reinsurance sector this year as its rate of growth significantly slowed
  • Leadenhall Capital Partners won a $20mn mandate from a US state university pension fund in early November, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) pension fund lifted its investment with a Nephila Capital fund by 25 percent year-on-year in the financial year ending 31 March 2015.
  • Nephila Capital is targeting the Florida Citizens depopulation programme as a new source of business for its expansion into the primary insurance market.
  • Swiss ILS fund manager Twelve Capital confirmed that it has closed its Twelve ILS cat bond fund, as it consolidates its range of Ucits funds.
  • Leadenhall Capital Partners won a $20mn mandate from a US state university pension fund in early November, according to SEC filings.
  • Towers Watson and Willis have agreed to double the value of a one-off cash dividend offered to Towers Watson investors before their proposed merger closes, in an attempt to secure sufficient approval to get the deal over the line
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