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Man Group, the minority investor in ILS fund manager Nephila, took a $9mn share in the company's post-tax profits in 2014, down from $11mn in 2013.
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UBS Global Asset Management has taken a 5.46 percent stake in the London-listed Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund, according to a stock exchange filing
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Evanston Capital Management, a $5.3bn fund-of-funds manager, has invested 5.5 percent of a recently launched closed-ended fund with Nephila Capital.
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Greenlight Re's net profit halved in 2014 to $109.6mn, as the reinsurer posted a significant drop in both premium and investment income
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Allied World reported $708mn of funds held with Bermudian manager Aeolus at the end of 2014, up 14 percent from $621.6mn a year earlier.
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Catco hopes to release at least $12mn in capital set aside last year to cover potential hailstorm losses by the end of the first quarter of 2015, as the retro manager released its annual report for the Catco Reinsurance Opportunities Fund.
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Standard & Poor's (S&P) believes that the recent string of mergers and acquisitions will not slow down falling rates or ease competitive pressures in the reinsurance industry
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West Virginia reports gain; Swisscanto buys into ILS; ILS Advisers index dips in 2014
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Florida-based managing general agency (MGA) New Paradigm Underwriters has begun writing parametric hurricane (re)insurance on Allianz paper, Trading Risk can reveal.
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AQR Re shifted more of its assets under management to its newer, higher risk-return fund in 2014.
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Reinsurance carriers are increasingly emphasising the importance of scale, as XL-Catlin and PartnerRe-Axis have unveiled merger plans that will propel them into the top 10 and top five respectively by premium base
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Catlin said that third-party investors put up nearly $350mn to support its various quota share arrangements in 2014