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ILS managers

  • Leadenhall Capital Partners CEO Luca Albertini says winning a new £200mn life insurance-linked mandate will move the firm up a league in the ILS fund manager world
  • London-based ILS fund manager Leadenhall Capital Partners has won a £200mn life insurance-linked mandate from a UK pension scheme to take its assets under management past the $500mn level.
  • Chicago-based insurance-linked investment manager Elementum Advisors has launched a Bermudian management firm, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • Hannover Re recovered nearly half of its EUR1.2bn major loss bill from retro markets in the first half of 2011, helping the firm to post a profit of EUR218mn.
  • The influx of capital into ILS funds continued last month, with two European funds winning major mandates.
  • London-based ILS manager Leadenhall Capital Partners has raised another $50mn from investors, compounding an earlier $50mn June inflow and taking total assets under management to $210mn.
  • A Pennsylvania state pension plan has approved a proposed $250mn investment in Nephila Capital's Palmetto Fund, taking the hedge fund's overall assets under management well over $4bn.
  • A handful of small to mid-sized European ILS fund managers have succeeded in riding the wave of interest in insurance-linked investments by raising over $250mn in recent weeks, Trading Risk can reveal.
  • London-based ILS manager Leadenhall Capital Partners has raised $50mn from new investors this year to take its assets under management to about $165mn.
  • Baldwin ILS fund first to report March loss; Catco goes back to investors for $7mn;Securis holds on listed fund; GAM markets Fermat fund
  • Clariden Leu - which launched the first UCITS III-compliant cat fund in November last year - has teamed up with German distributor Fundmatrix.
  • Capacity in Credit Suisse Asset Management's (CSAM) IRIS insurance-linked funds has hit $3bn and continues to rise, Trading Risk can reveal.