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Berkshire Hathaway has now withdrawn from all of the London market broker facilities that it was writing, sister publication The Insurance Insider revealed this week
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XL Catlin and $100bn asset manager Oaktree Capital are looking at creating a hedge fund reinsurance vehicle with an initial concept similar to ABR Re, sister title The Insurance Insider revealed.
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Kiskadee Investment Managers has launched a new Bermudian special purpose insurer Cardinal Re that it says will enable it to do transactions with third-party capital more quickly.
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Aon Benfield has moderated its outlook for the growth of the alternative reinsurance market, to $120bn-$150bn by 2018 from initial guidance of $150bn, Aon Securities CEO Paul Schultz said at a press briefing today (13 September).
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Property catastrophe reinsurance limit placed has grown by 8 percent since spring 2014 to reach $352bn by July, Guy Carpenter estimated at a press briefing that opened the 2015 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous today (12 September).
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Collateralised reinsurance business experienced the most growth within the alternative sector in the year from July 2014 to June 2015, Aon Securities said in its annual ILS market review.
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Axis and Blackstone have recommenced working on their mooted hedge fund reinsurer start-up, sister publication The Insurance Insider has reported.
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Markel is set to buy "substantially all" of Bermudian retro manager Catco Investment Management for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today (10 September).
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Aon Benfield has estimated that alternative reinsurance capital levels rose 6 percent over the first six months of 2015 to reach $68bn, down from 18 percent growth in the same period of last year
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A group of sidecars tracked by Trading Risk recorded an average increase in fair value of 2.5 percent for the three months from February to April 2015, according to disclosures from sidecar investors Stone Ridge Asset Management and Pioneer.
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IBM adds Securis; Kinesis fee structure; Catco returns
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2015 might be the alternative reinsurance market's chance for a break from the spotlight during the industry's annual Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.
