ILS

This may be the year investors call pricing models for alternative capital into question.

The deal will flexibly expand in line with cessions from an MGA.

Brokers forecast an average of $9.4bn in cat bond volumes for the year.

The London Stock Exchanged-listed Catco Reinsurance Opportunities pledges to "keep investment management arrangements under review".

Arguably the defining feature of the last seven years of the reinsurance market has been the inexorable increase in the amount of ILS capital in the system, from roughly $40bn in 2012 to $90bn in H1 2018.

The InsurTech has built a digital marketplace for cyber risks.

The complaint on behalf of Markel investors follows the disclosure of regulatory probes into the accounting of loss reserves.

The changing dynamics of the reinsurance and ILS markets will be laid bare in forthcoming key renewal dates.

The reinsurance broker has pointed to several new initiatives designed to bring more capital to the market.

Deal volumes for the full-year 2018 hit $10.1bn.

CEO Julian Enoizi prepares the ILS market’s first terrorism cat bond in more than 15 years.

If you have to turn to me for your dose of optimism, then things have probably taken a slightly strange turn.