October 28, 2021
Reinsurers are increasingly relying on third-party capital to support their retrocession needs, in which they transfer risks they have assumed to other counterparties. According to a report from S&P Global Ratings, reinsurers have ceded about 50% of their exposures at …
October 5, 2021
Ledger Investing, Inc., a technology-driven marketplace for matching insurance risk to capital markets, announced the closing of Nanorock Fund Ltd., an insurance linked security (ILS) fund focused primarily on investing in casualty insurance risks through the Ledger Connect platform. Nanorock …
December 21, 2017
Willis Towers Watson Securities said it has structured and placed EUR 90 million of insurance-linked securities (ILS) for Covea Mutual Insurance Group, France’s largest domestic property/casualty insurance group. The transaction was executed in collaboration with Willis Towers Watson’s reinsurance business, …
December 20, 2017
Hedge funds and other managers of catastrophe bond funds racked up some of the worst losses in more than a decade from this year’s hurricanes and wildfires. But a year that is shaping up to be the costliest on record …