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ILS investors

  • Prudential takes 17% Blue Capital stake; $200mn mandate win pushes Securis to US
  • Switzerland-based ILS fund manager Secquaero Advisors has announced plans to launch a new non-life only fund with new management partner Schroders.
  • Dedicated cat funds are continuing to reduce their participation in new ILS issuance this year, according to statistics obtained by Trading Risk.
  • There is an increasing bifurcation in the reinsurance industry between an underwriting and a non-underwriting market, Validus Re CEO Kean Driscoll said at the InsiderScope New York 2013 conference today.
  • Mercury Capital has opened up a tracker fund to external investors to follow its new MiCRIX index of industry loss warranty (ILW) prices
  • PartnerRe provided half the initial capital base for its new $75mn Lorenz Re sidecar, the reinsurer disclosed in its first quarter results
  • The AlphaCat managed funds division at Bermudian reinsurer Validus reported $25mn of profit for the first quarter, just above the $24.5mn profit it recorded in the same period of last year
  • ANV stake adds to OTPP's heavyweights; LGT opens Bermudian cells; Blue Capital in second round of fundraising
  • PartnerRe is the latest reinsurer to establish its own strategic sidecar vehicle with the launch of the $75mn Lorenz Re
  • The collateralised reinsurance market has grown by 44 percent over the past nine months from $9bn to $13bn at March 2013, according to estimates from Guy Carpenter
  • Catco could lose another 4.7 percentage points of returns from its 2012 portfolio if the PCS estimate for Superstorm Sandy losses were to rise to $26bn, according to a presentation seen by Trading Risk
  • I wonder who first used the term "hot capital" to describe the current investor enthusiasm for the alternative reinsurance market?
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