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State National has revealed it earned $5.5mn in ceding fees by fronting for Nephila in the first half of 2016, up from $5.2mn for the same period of last year
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Australian sovereign wealth fund the Future Fund has added Kiskadee Investment Managers to its line-up of reinsurance managers, according to its website
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Mt Logan's overall assets under management remained flat in the second quarter as the vehicle took an undisclosed sum of cat losses for the period
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Kai Morgenstern is leaving RenaissanceRe after 10 years with the carrier's ventures department, Trading Risk understands.
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Hiscox said that its growing asset management platform Kiskadee helped the carrier's reinsurance segment lift gross written premiums by 20.6 percent in the first half to reach £364.7mn ($479mn).
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Remote risk insurance-linked investment (ILI) strategies are likely to be more insulated from competition in the reinsurance sector, Willis Towers Watson said in its latest annual Global Alternatives Survey.
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Nephila partner David Oliveira has resigned from the ILS sector's largest fund manager, Trading Risk can reveal.
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The alternative sector could lift its share of the cat market from just under 20 percent currently to more than a third by 2020, according to Michael Stahel, partner and portfolio manager at LGT ILS Partners.
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Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance is offering to issue cat bond protection on behalf of Japanese corporates, according to local media reports.
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Schroders lifted its share in Zurich-based ILS manager Secquaero Advisors to a majority 50.1 percent earlier this year after buying up an additional 20.1 percent of equity.
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Assets under management (AuM) at the top 10 ILS funds grew by 7.7 percent in the half-year to 1 July, as growth accelerated from late 2015.
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Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance is offering to issue cat bond protection on behalf of Japanese corporates, the Nikkei Asian Review reported
