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The governor has yet to sign a pending bill to create a public cat model. -
Returns from cat risk investments stood at 20.1% for the year to 30 June 2025.
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A cat-focused vehicle is “the missing piece” of Hannover Re’s ILS offerings, said Silke Sehm.
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The allocation is around 3% of the fund’s total assets.
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Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested Tuesday on destruction of property charges.
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The insurer of last resort currently has $2.15bn of cat bond protection on risk.
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Toh joins from Nephila, where he spent the last decade, bringing expertise in ILS.
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The alternative asset manager was founded in 2021 with offices in London, New York and Abu Dhabi.
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Founder and CEO of Nascent Andre Perez will join Sephira’s board of directors.
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It is understood around $1bn of premiums could be ceded to the proposed vehicle.
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Sources have said $1bn+ of fresh capital from the region is expected to be deployed in 2026.
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Seller White Mountains will retain a roughly 15% fully diluted equity stake.
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Improved performance and growing investment returns played a role in the upgrade.
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The business has been ~70% owned by White Mountains since January 2024.
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The executive has worked at Aon for almost two decades.
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The figure comprises 5.48% of insurance discount margin and 3.96% of risk-free rate.
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The facility will initially focus on US, Bermudian and European business.
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Spectrum joins investors ForgePoint, Hudson and MTech.
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Pricing has hit historically soft market lows, based on secondary market pricing.
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Winds have strengthened to 80 mph, and the hurricane is expected to intensify further over the next 48 hours.
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The vehicle will now cover an E&S program jointly launched with Accredited.
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Bellal Rahman joins from Catalina Life Re, where he was head of finance for two years.
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The manager’s largest ILS holding is in the cat-bond-heavy High Yield fund.
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Cat bonds have outpaced the returns on private strategies in the year to date.
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Marlon Williams will focus on the placement of reinsurance and retro business.
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The new Verisk SCS model is increasing expected losses on aggregate bonds.
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The hire comes as Guy Carpenter fills the void created by the Willis Re raid earlier this year.
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The tropical cyclone is expected to be named Imelda.
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In the new role, Edward Johnson will be rejoining former Aon Securities colleague Chris Parry.
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The Bermuda firm said HS Sawmill reflected its continued focus on life insurance.
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Equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, Ragasa is the world's strongest storm this year.
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The ILS services specialist has worked in the ILS market in Bermuda for 10 years.
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Charles Mixon joined the firm a year ago in a business development role.
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Despite the formation of Gabrielle, there is "a very high probability" of a below-average season.
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The resource was developed by leading ILS managers and investors.
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The major storm is set to move on to mainland China later in the week.
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Deals would need to be sized at $50mn plus for transfer to capital markets.
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The economic loss from the event was around EUR7.6bn.
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Aeolus hires reserving actuary Chow to join support portfolio optimisation
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The Bermuda reinsurer has been active in ILS since launching in 2007.
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Samild held multiple roles including head of alternatives at the Future Fund.
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The CEA had $19.3bn of claim-paying capacity as of 31 July.
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The ILS manager has $6.8bn in assets and will be led by MariaGiovanna Guatteri.
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The measures also seek to encourage greater wildfire mitigation efforts.
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The sidecar will support five programs providing specialty frequency coverages.
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Axa IM’s acquisition by BNP Paribas was confirmed in July this year.
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Vantage Group Holdings received a BBB- long-term issuer credit rating.
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Reinsurer executives during a Aon reinsurer panel stressed that the industry worked hard on setting the right structure.
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ILS executives talked pricing, capacity and opportunities in casualty at an ILS roundtable in Monte Carlo.
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A roundup of all the news you need, including Nick Fallon’s departure from Aon.
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The market has learned lessons from earlier soft market phases that it will apply now.
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Losses were primarily driven by personal property lines.
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The tech firm is building a joint stock company with insurers and investors.
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Nick Fallon is the latest in a string of retro-broker moves in the market.
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Victory Pioneer Cat Bond Fund also added assets in the past month.
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The deal is expected to result in $700mn in combined GWP in Florida upon completion.
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Arch set up Bermuda investment manager Arch Fund Management in February.
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The syndicate is targeting capital allocation for 1 January, the company confirmed.
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Terms are expected to hold, underpinning the stronger recent performance of reinsurers.
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Sources said that the carrier has held preliminary talks with private debt investors.
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Scott Cobon's most recent title was MD, insurance management services.
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Fleming’s attempt follows those of other legacy carriers that have had recent successes raising capital.
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The figure comprises 6.07% of insurance discount margin and 4.15% of risk-free rate.
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He added that Munich Re does not rely on retro or third-party.
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Hannover Re Capital Partners is in talks with two investors for 1 January launch.
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The leadership’s commentary spotlighted to value of ILS to the group.
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The sponsor extended two notes issued in 2022.
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It is understood that CyberCube has been considering a sale of the business.
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Ryan Alternative Capital Re was launched in partnership with Axis Capital.
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The volume of property cat aggregates placed grew 50% in 2025.
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The vehicle will be capitalised by an asset manager with more than $100bn in AuM.
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The target allocation to Munich Re, Elementum and the run-off AlphaCat funds fell in the year to 30 June 2025.
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Bohm has held senior roles at BMS, Swiss Re and Aon during his career.
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The trend for private credit in alternative asset management is “set to continue”.
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The capital supported sidecar-style syndicates and reinsurance start-ups.
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Syndicate 1440 was approved to assume business incepting January 2026.
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The investment bank had stopped offering ILS services last September.
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The data modeling firm said losses previously averaged $132bn annually.
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The ratings agency warned negative PYD on US casualty will likely continue.
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The agency noted inflows to cat bond funds and investor interest in private ILS.
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Competition from cat bonds in the top layers of programmes applied downward pressure on reinsurance pricing in 2025.
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