Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) are increasing trusted and being invested in by institutional asset owners who would remain invested even after a major hurricane, claims a new survey. 31 January 2018
Validus Holdings is to be bought up by American International Group (AIG) for a total of $5.56 billion, in the first such M&A deal in the market in 2018. 22 January 2018
Legal company Appleby has announced that it played a part in the majority of transactions involving insurance-linked securities (ILS) during 2017. 16 January 2018
Bermuda-based Sequant Re Holdings, the collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments start-up, will be liquidated after the vehicle struggled to raise enough funds. 9 January 2018
The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) reinforced its position as the global leader and listing venue of preference for issuers of Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) over 2017, it claimed in its end of year statement. 9 January 2018
A flood of catastrophe bonds entering the insurance linked security (ILS) market helped to push it to a new record level of issuance, breaching $10 billion for the first time, according to a new report from PCS. 5 January 2018
Bermuda-based Validus has issued its first catastrophe bond. Listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) the bond will be issued via Tailwind Re, a newly created special purpose insurer. 3 January 2018
Rates will harden in the 1/1/2018 renewals—or at least that is what 86 percent of respondents to an end of year survey conducted by Bermuda:Re+ILS think. 29 December 2017
The onset of the first hard market in more than a decade will be one of the defining factors of 2018—but rates softening or staying the same could equally represent a problem for the industry, according to an end of year survey conducted by Bermuda:Re+ILS. 28 December 2017
Reinsurance January rate increase expectations are slowly deflating in a late renewal season, analysts from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) suggested following investor meetings with key Bermudian re/insurers. 14 December 2017
