ILS

Transformer start-up Clear Blue is on course to launch next month with an A- AM Best rating, The Insurance Insider can reveal

Chinese conglomerate Fosun has announced a HK$11.7bn ($1.5bn) rights issue, according to a statement filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Guy Carpenter and advisory firm Vario Partners are planning to launch a new joint venture, Vario Global Capital, which they hope will become the leading insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager for non-catastrophe risk.

Liberty Mutual's director of global reinsurance strategy has predicted that the top tier of global reinsurers could capture as much as 75 percent of the market's premium in the future, as consolidation becomes more intense

Xchanging has enhanced its reinsurance placement platform, newly branded as X-gRm, to offer a live marketplace for indexed products including industry loss warranties

The industry taskforce established to bring insurance-linked securities (ILS) business to London has announced plans to target collateralised reinsurance business, The Insurance Insider can reveal.

TigerRisk has been sounding out the market for an index-based Lloyd's hedging product, which could offer insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds exposure to a range of specialty business written within the London market, Trading Risk understands

Two Swiss asset managers have backed new insurance-linked securities (ILS) ventures as the cat bond market experiences a small spurt of start-ups, sister publication Trading Risk has reported

Aon Benfield is hoping to hire former Markel and Guy Carpenter executive Erik Manning to join its retro team as a managing director in Bermuda, sister title Trading Risk revealed earlier this month

Early in our evolution insurance capital used to be atomised into hundreds of tiny ponds and rivulets. It was constrained both by political geography and also by line of business

Reinsurers have held onto their US windstorm exposure in 2015 despite reducing their overall exposure to catastrophe risk, Standard & Poor's (S&P) has said

Lancashire shifted its non-marine retro programme away from aggregate cover this year in favour of a reinstatable, per-occurrence cover, according to a recent investor presentation released by the reinsurer.