July 16, 2024
Last month, amid reports that Hurricane Beryl would become the earliest Category 5 hurricane in history, a group of money managers were busy trying to figure out whether their highly calibrated bets centered on natural catastrophes were about to take …
August 24, 2016
A powerful earthquake in Italy on Wednesday is unlikely to force UnipolSai’s 200 million euro ($226 mln) catastrophe bond into default as the bond has low exposure to the affected region, the Italian insurer said. The earthquake devastated a string …
September 30, 2015
Contamination from chemicals is likely to increase the cost to insurers of last month’s blasts in the Chinese port of Tianjin, costs which are already expected to exceed $3 billion, insurance specialists say. While Chinese insurers are likely to bear …
August 19, 2015
Zurich-based Twelve Capital is only five years old, but it, along with similar companies, has already fundamentally altered the reinsurance industry. It’s taken a remarkably short period of time for “alternative capital” to morph into “insurance linked securities (ILS),” and …
June 5, 2015
Twelve Capital, an independent investment manager specializing in insurance-related investments, with offices in Zurich and London, announced that Marcus Rivaldi, William Hardcastle and Ulrich Beck have joined the firm’s London office. The company’s core business is the management of insurance-linked …