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  • Alternative reinsurance capital grew by 18 percent in the first half of 2014 to reach $59bn, outpacing growth in the traditional reinsurance market, Aon Benfield Analytics has estimated.
  • Ratings agency Fitch said that the expansion of alternative reinsurance capital has resulted in a structural change to the reinsurance market that will likely act as a permanent brake on future profits for traditional writers.
  • The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) bought $134mn of new reinsurance limit in April as it continued to push for multi-year cover, sister publication Trading Risk has revealed.
  • Insurance companies are demonstrating a greater interest in making investment allocations to alternative asset classes such as hedge funds and private equity, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM).
  • Leading UK fund manager Neil Woodford is building stakes in London market (re)insurers for his new fund management business, Woodford Investment Management.
  • A prolonged low interest rate environment has dominated the investment yields of carriers across our composites for several years, and the first half of 2014 was no different.
  • Senior underwriters in the engineering direct and facultative (D&F) market have warned that the sector could face significant losses from increased take-up of advanced loss of profit (ALOP) and delay in start-up (DSU) cover.
  • A unit of US insurance giant Chubb is considering whether to buy a new aggregate stop loss cover that could remove up to $32mn of facultative premium from the market, sister title Inside FAC has revealed.
  • Despite suffering the largest single-risk loss of 2013, the SK Hynix programme renewal did not generate as much hardening in the semiconductor market as underwriters anticipated, sister publication Inside FAC reported this month.
  • US-based Kaufman Financial Group (KFG) has revived the Lochain Patrick name with a deal to buy marine and energy specialty broker Oval International and rebrand the firm.