personal Insurance

BMS Re hires O'Brien (formerly Nephila) to support secondary cat bond trading

BMS Re, the reinsurance arm of the international broking group, has hired former Nephila Capital employee Brendan O’Brien to further,.. Read More

Aons Randolph Re issues EUR 100m France weather related cat bond for Groupama

Randolph Re, insurance and reinsurance broker Aon’s private catastrophe bond issuance and placement platform, has completed a EUR 100 million,.. Read More

Marsh looks to capital market alternatives as US property rates accelerate

Broking giant Marsh has noted that capacity is increasingly an issue and alongside losses this has served to drive US,.. Read More

City of Zurich Pension Fund ILS allocation surpasses $700m

The City of Zurich Pension Fund has continued to increase its allocation to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class in,.. Read More

Vermont Mutual's Baldwin Re cat bond price drops to low-end of guidance

Vermont Mutual Insurance Company looks set to secure its latest catastrophe bond at reduced pricing, as the spread for the,.. Read More

Best of Artemis, week ending June 18th 2023

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending June 18th 2023, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and,.. Read More

Consider alternative capital a core part of capital management, McKinsey urges

Participants in the global insurance and reinsurance industry need to consider alternative capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as a “core,.. Read More

Amwins launches follow-form facility with Beazleys Smart Tracker as lead capacity

Amwins Global Risks, the international arm of insurance origination and distribution specialist Amwins, has launched a new follow-form facility with,.. Read More

Slide returns for second $100m named storm cat bond, Purple Re 2023-2

Slide Insurance Company has returned to the catastrophe bond market for its second time, seeking another $100 million in named,.. Read More

Allstate adds $893m May catastrophe losses to heavy April burden

Allstate, the large U.S. primary insurer, has reported catastrophe losses for the month of May of an estimated $893 million,,.. Read More

June hailstorms in Texas to drive $1bn plus industry losses : KCC

An outbreak of hailstorms in Texas from severe convective weather in June is expected to drive more than $1 billion,.. Read More

ILS hugely important, evolving in a positive sense: Gianfranco Lot, Swiss Re

Gianfranco Lot, Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of P&C Reinsurance at Swiss Re, has highlighted the importance of the insurance-linked securities,.. Read More