ILS

Samir Shah, the former head of capital markets at AIG, has joined a start-up technology-focused firm working in insurance securitisations

Insured losses from the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday morning are expected to be relatively low, according to various modelling firms

Swiss Re, Everest Re and several insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds are among the major reinsurance providers for United Insurance Holdings carrier UPC Insurance and American Coastal Insurance (ACIC).

Matt Fairfield's forthcoming (re)insurance start-up Exin is at the nexus of a range of different industry developments witnessed in recent times.

Reserve releases from a UK flood side pocket helped push Markel Catco's first-half returns up 8 percent year-on-year, the company said today.

Net profits at fronting carrier State National increased by 3.2 percent to $10.0mn in the second quarter, as ceding fees climbed by 3.3 percent to $16.9mn.

Plans to publish draft regulations for a UK insurance-linked securities (ILS) regulatory framework have been pushed back, The Insurance Insider has learned.

Glenn Jackson has joined independent broking house RFIB Group as a managing director of RFIB Americas

Endurance has attached its first layer of aggregate non-peak loss retro, said senior vice president of investor relations Gregg Schroeder on the carrier's second quarter conference call on Monday (1 August)

Validus recovered almost three-quarters of its Jubilee oil field loss from an industry loss warranty (ILW) payout, the carrier's second quarter results showed

Third-party investors in reinsurer sidecars and asset management platforms took a share of second quarter catastrophe losses, which in turn impacted the fee income of the managing carriers

A weather cat bond is being pitched to insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors for the first time since the late 1990s, sister publication Trading Risk reported last week