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Private equity firm KKR hopes to accelerate Nephila Capital's growth after buying a 25 percent stake in the leading ILS fund manager last month
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Lancashire announced it has set up a new third-party capital management division, Lancashire Capital Management, to replace its previously planned Saltire Management structure
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The top 10 ILS fund managers have added $7bn to their combined assets under management over the past year and now control almost $28bn of funds, according to investor data compiled by Trading Risk.
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Just one private cat bond has been placed in the last month but ILS investors still expect 2013 issuance to be around the $6bn mark as they await new deals
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Although significant institutional capital may be sitting on the "sidelines" of the alternative reinsurance market other factors are preventing more pension funds from being attracted to the space, fund advisers say.
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PGGM linked to SNS Reaal deal; Hertfordshire fund invests £32mn in ILS; Credit Suisse reduces Sandy loss; Catco's Sandy losses total $140mn
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Lancashire is returning the bulk of capital raised for its $250mn Saltire Re I sidecar just three months after its launch, Trading Risk can reveal
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Ariel veteran Don Kramer has hired two senior new executives to join his start-up fund manager ILS Capital Management after Jerome Faure and Alex Krutov left the organisation, Trading Risk can reveal.
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Bermudian ILS manager Nephila Capital is setting up a new £100mn Lloyd's syndicate to underwrite its county weighted industry loss (CWIL) products.
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The ILS investor base took a more generalist slant in 2012 as money managers and pension funds increased their share of investment in new cat bond issuance, Swiss Re Capital Markets has said in its annual review of the market.
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Nephila's partnership with private equity firm KKR will send a signal of the firm's staying power to its trading partners, the fund manager's co-founder Frank Majors told Trading Risk.
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Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has bought a 24.9 percent stake in leading ILS fund manager Nephila, in the latest demonstration of heightened investor interest in alternative catastrophe reinsurance.
