Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. announced its insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform has a new name and a new lead executive. Formerly called Hamilton Capital Partners, the platform is now Hamilton ILS. Hanni Ali moves from his role as senior vice president, …
The January 2020 reinsurance renewals saw significant variation in pricing and capacity depending on geography, line of business, cedents’ loss record and client relationships, according to two reports published by brokers Guy Carpenter and Willis Re. Indeed, the market demonstrated …
Specialty insurer Brit Ltd. has launched Sussex Specialty Insurance Fund to offer insurance linked securities (ILS) investors access to Lloyd’s risk. It is the first ILS fund in the Lloyd’s of London market. The SIF will allow Sussex to offer …
Willis Re Securities reports it has structured and placed EUR 120 million of insurance-linked securities (ILS) to provide reinsurance capacity for Covéa Mutual Insurance Group, France’s largest domestic property/casualty insurance group. The transaction was executed in collaboration with Willis Towers …
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its captive and alternative risk transfer solutions subsidiary, Artex Risk Solutions Inc., has completed its purchase of Bermuda-based Horseshoe Insurance Services Holdings Ltd. Financial terms of the deal, which was first announced in October …
Property Claims Services (PCS), a Verisk subsidiary, has extended the catastrophe loss aggregation methodology, previously developed for use in Japan, to cover more territories in the region. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, PCS will report insured losses from catastrophe events in …
Positive pricing momentum—it’s the favorite phrase of many reinsurance executives, who are hoping that the momentum they’ve seen in 2019 will continue during the coming January renewals and beyond. The question is whether they will be disappointed, once again. Over …
Reinsurers’ earnings are likely to see further erosion in 2019 after another year of major catastrophe losses, which is prolonging the positive momentum for reinsurance pricing, according to AM Best. “Three consecutive years of severe losses, dwindling favorable reserve development …
Artex Risk Solutions, the captive and alternative risk management solutions subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., announced it has reached agreement to acquire Horseshoe Insurance Services Holdings Ltd., which will strengthen its insurance-linked securities (ILS) operations. The transaction is …
Markel Corp. announced it has hired Brenton “Brent” Slade as president of Lodgepine Capital Management Ltd., its new retrocessional insurance linked securities (ILS) fund based in Bermuda. Slade comes to Lodgepine from Hamilton Capital Partners, where he had been senior …
