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Chaucer has appointed Jerome Faure as an independent non-executive director of Chaucer Syndicates, its managing agency and main operating company
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Lloyd's insurer Brit has launched Sussex Capital, a Bermuda-based collateralised reinsurance vehicle with an initial $100mn of capacity.
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Several new ILS vehicles are in the works for 2018, marking a resurgence of interest in managing third-party capital from Lloyd's carriers that have been late to the game in setting up such platforms
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Twelve in Frankfurt; Credit Suisse vehicles; ILS returns...
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Canadian institutional investors strengthened their ties with the reinsurance sector in Q4, with CPPIB funding a Bermuda-based reinsurance platform for Ascot and CDPQ investing $400mn in Hyperion
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Industry analysts have estimated that the ILS market could pick up as much as 15-25 percent of total insured claims from this year's major disaster losses, but looking at disclosures to date suggests the sector is currently assuming its share will fall at the lower end of expectations
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Smart beta products seem to be the flavour of the month
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Average ILS returns came to 0.35 percent in October as some funds took wildfire claims, according to the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index.
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Lloyd's (re)insurer Neon is seeking to be the first mover under the new London ILS regime with a sidecar that it is hoping to launch in 2018, sources said.
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Lloyd's insurer Brit has announced the launch of a new specialty (re)insurance platform, Scion Underwriting Managers, which intends to write business on behalf of third party capital providers as well as Brit and other markets
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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) added RenaissanceRe to its list of reinsurance managers in 2017 as it continued to expand its holdings in the sector.
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Schroders has launched a specialist life ILS fund with $750mn of committed capital, the company announced today.
