According to Eric Andersen, President of broking giant, Aon, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to be a very “boutique business within reinsurance” for the firm, in terms of the scale of the traditional reinsurance treaties seen across the industry on property cat, liability and specialty.Andersen noted that ILS is a growth area though and … Read more
According to independent insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Euler ILS Partners, the Los Angeles, California wildfires could have a significant impact on US pricing, especially if insurance industry losses were to exceed $30 billion.As we’ve been reporting, official reports state that over 17,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and the first … Read more
According to senior executives at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the fee income flowing to the company from its third-party capitalised Ruby Re life reinsurance sidecar is already meaningful and while a new transaction was ceded to the sidecar in Q3 last year, the structure still had around two-thirds of its capital and capacity left … Read more
Mercury General Corporation, one insurance company with meaningful exposure to claims from the Los Angeles, California wildfires, has said today that it has not yet determined whether it will consider the fires as two separate events under its reinsurance arrangements.Previously, Mercury had explained that it expected the California wildfires would result in losses for the … Read more
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has returned to the catastrophe bond market to sponsor its first issuance since late 2023, seeking $200 million or more in multi-year collateralized California earthquake reinsurance protection from the capital markets through this Ursa Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance.The CEA last sponsored a catastrophe bond in December 2023 and in … Read more
