Alternative Capital
The emergence of a $30bn global marketplace for insurance-linked securities has served as evidence of the increasingly prominent role third-party capital now plays in risk transfer. Over the medium to long-term this sector is expected to continue its growth as investors take advantage of the low correlation insurance has with other asset classes. This section brings together Insurance Day’s coverage of alternative capital and the way it is helping reshape global insurance markets.
Capital returns to reinsurance market amid Covid-19 volatility
In the wake of the pandemic, capital-raising transactions and some insurance-linked securities deals have been well received by investors
Viewpoint: We are at another tipping point in the use of third-party capital
Reinsurers will increasingly focus on their skills to originate risk pools for third-party investors and more efficiently integrate the use of external capital into their business model
Asia regulators turn to ILS strategies to close protection gap
Several Asian markets are in the process of amending their re/insurance regulations to make their markets more resilient to pandemic and natural catastrophe losses
Former Tokio Millennium Re chief joins Schroder Secquaero
Stephan Ruoff comes on board as deputy head
Twelve Capital names Ramseier as executive chairman
Fund manager also announces Thomas Müller has joined the company’s board
Rates ‘spike’ as ILS retro capacity squeezed
Covid-19 is likely to exacerbate the capacity squeeze in the retro market
CatCo fund returns $48m to investors
Reinsurance Opportunities fund will return a further $38m to investors next month
Focus: Sustainability is the new frontier for ILS
As an asset class, ILS has significant potential to help investors meet their ESG compliance
ILS Capital completes first trapped capital securitisation
Fund says deal ‘paves the way for similar deals’
Aeolus hires Jagoda from Elementum
Nicholas Jagoda was part of the original team that launched Elementum in 2009
ILS market growth outstrips 2019
Property cat bond limit placed in first half totals $6.5bn
Blue Capital fund loses 8% in year-to-date
Investors to receive instalment of $1m after fund put into run-off
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