UBS recommends maintaining ILS exposure, notes weather analysis key at mid-year
UBS Hedge Fund Solutions, a division of UBS Asset Management focused on managing and advising on a range of alternative assets for clients, has recommended maintaining exposure to insurance-linked securities (ILS), but in what could be a nod to hurricane season forecasts, noted that weather analysis is key around the reinsurance renewals this year. It’s […]
Recent cat bond market volatility evident between triggers and perils: Tenax
enax Capital, the London based hedge fund investment manager that operates a UCITS cat bond strategy, has analysed what it calls the “unusual” peak in volatility seen in recent weeks, which has resulted in the net risk margin gap widening between various perils. As well as a widening of the gaps between net risk margin […]
ILS fund diversity makes multiple ILS allocations a consideration: SIGLO research
The landscape of insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund products is relatively broad and diverse, even though the majority of ILS funds are crowded into similar sizes and target similar levels of risk, meaning that, for investors, there is value in considering multiple ILS allocations, according to SIGLO Capital Advisors AG. In fact, analysis undertaken by Swiss […]
Puerto Rico government seeking Parametric Re cat bond protection
The government of Puerto Rico is seeking $75 million in parametric insurance protection against the financial impacts of named storms and earthquakes from the capital markets, through a new Puerto Rico Parametric Re Ltd. (Series 2024-1) catastrophe bond transaction, Artemis has learned. This first Puerto Rico Parametric Re catastrophe bond is particularly notable as the first […]
SCOR secures 40% upsized $175m Atlas Capital 2024-1 cat bond
French global reinsurance company SCOR has now successfully upsized its latest catastrophe bond by 40% to secure $175 million of retrocession from the Atlas Capital DAC (Series 2024-1) deal, while the pricing settled just above initial guidance, showing the risk adjustments made appear to have had the desired effect. SCOR ventured back to the catastrophe bond […]
World Bank & EC call for scaled up European disaster risk transfer & cat bonds
In a string of research reports, the World Bank Group and European Commission call on governments across Europe to utilise more in the way of disaster risk transfer and insurance to reduce the pressure from weather and natural perils on budgets, including the use of catastrophe bonds to access capital market investors for reinsurance risk […]
Hannover Re collateralised reinsurance & cat bond business expanded in 2023
Despite the slowdown in the collateralised reinsurance marketplace in recent years, global reinsurer Hannover Re continues to place more limit on behalf of investor and ILS fund partners, growing this segment of its business again in full-year 2023. Hannover Re is a key facilitator for the global insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, both through assisting cedents […]
ILS allocations can generate attractive returns despite changing climate: LGT
Even in a state of increased event activity driven by a changing climate, allocating to insurance-linked strategies (ILS) can generate attractive returns for investors, according to a whitepaper from LGT ILS Partners, the specialist dedicated ILS investment unit of the private bank and asset manager LGT Capital Partners. LGT ILS Partners’ paper observed that, in […]
Investor interest in ILS could be stronger than expected: Moody’s
Thanks to the very strong earnings generated by capital deployed into the reinsurance market last year and an expectation that strong earnings can persist through full-year 2024, analysts at Moody’s Investors Service believe investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) could prove to be stronger than had been expected. Moody’s said that pricing of property catastrophe […]
London market ILS platform still seen as lagging: LMG report
While the London insurance and reinsurance market has been growing it is being outpaced by other markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) is again highlighted as an area of opportunity where results have lagged ambitions and there remains work to do, the London Market Group’s latest report makes clear. While London and the United Kingdom spent […]