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P&C (re)insurers have moved towards a new "paradigm" where a smaller core balance sheet is complemented by off-balance sheet ventures that provide less volatile fee income and a more efficient way to flex capital, says Goldman Sachs head of structured finance Michael Millette.
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Charles Collis and Michael Frith from Conyers Dill & Pearman look at the moving currents of "hard-wired" ILS structures
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Most reinsurers are still talking up the mid-year US property cat market and insisting that the 10-15 percent rate increases seen at 1 January can be replicated, but the first cracks in the façade of market confidence have become apparent
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Industry investors said recent reinsurer start-ups such as Third Point Re and PaCRe might work for their hedge fund backers but questioned the rationale for other investors, speaking at an event hosted by sister publication The Insurance Insider this month
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The capital markets are benefitting this year from a continued drive among state-backed US insurance carriers to offload their risk due to tight budgets and the rising cost of traditional property cat cover
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ILS fund managers operating in Europe will soon have to deal with a host of new regulations set to come into force five years after the financial crisis. Leonard Ng lays out key elements of the new legal frameworks that will place hedge funds under closer supervision
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ILS fund managers may have been raking in new capital over the past year but their market share as cat bond buyers is declining as activity among generalist investors picks up
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Risk Management Solutions manager Jinal Shah explains how the modelling firm's new Miu Pricing platform aims to help fixed income investors analyse catastrophe risk.
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1 April will be a tense and uncertain renewal for Japanese reinsurance buyers, sister publication The Insurance Insider has reported, but early indications are that premium rates will rise strongly.
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Leading ILS fund managers John Seo and Frank Majors may run two very different shops, but both urged the market not to give into "reinsurer envy" by seeking to diversify their portfolios, speaking during panel discussions at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association New York conference at the start of March.
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ILS fund managers have taken their fair share of growth over the past two years, but as the property catastrophe market hardens will they be the first port of call for investors lured by rising rates?
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Rising property catastrophe premiums gave reinsurers a bright spot as they unveiled sagging 2011 results in the opening weeks of February.