Best of Artemis, week ending September 8th 2024

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 8th 2024, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending September 8th 2024:

Reinsurance mood shifts to capitalising on hard market pricing while it lasts: AM Best
The mood in reinsurance has shifted somewhat, with the Big Four European reinsurers now focusing on taking advantage of higher pricing while it lasts, rating agency AM Best believes.
Expect competitive renewal dynamics, but capital needs respecting: Artemis London 2024
At last week’s Artemis London 2024 conference speakers kicked off the busy reinsurance conferencing season, with a discussion of key issues that matter to insurance-linked securities (ILS) market participants as they head into events like the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous and begin looking to end of year renewals.
Aon: Reinsurance capital should run towards risk, help on frequency / earnings protection
Broking group Aon has set out its stall for the reinsurance renewals, calling on reinsurance capital providers to run towards risk instead of away from it, else risk the industry becoming less relevant.
AXA XL ILS creates win-win opportunity with investor-backed whole account transactions: Patel
AXA XL ILS Capital Management, the alternative reinsurance capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) management division of AXA XL, the commercial insurance and reinsurance unit of the AXA Group, is continuing to innovate as it looks to bring returns from across risk classes to investors through aligned structures.
Yes, cat bond fund returns are lower year-on-year, but there’s a good reason
A recent article in the mainstream financial press has caused some consternation among catastrophe bond fund managers and end-investors allocating to those strategies, as while it correctly highlighted that cat bond fund returns are down year-on-year in 2024, it failed to discuss the very good reason why 2023’s elevated returns were unlikely to be repeated.
Cambridge Associates ‘excited’ to add ILS capabilities with acquisition of SIGLO Capital Advisors
SIGLO Capital Advisors AG, a Swiss based alternative asset advisory specialist with an insurance-linked securities (ILS) practice, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm.
Analyse the catastrophe bond maturity schedule, see when liquidity is coming
Catastrophe bond maturities are a significant source of liquidity and cash for the market, which is typically reinvested into new cat bond issues and as such the schedule of upcoming cat bond maturities is a key indicator for sponsors and broker-dealers, as well as cat bond investment fund managers.
Mereo finalising equity and ILS fund investor backing, set to launch for 1/1
Mereo Insurance, the Bermuda-based re/insurance start-up that counts former AIG CEO Brian Duperreault as its Chairman, has a strategy to work closely with third-party capital investors, is expected to be up and running for 1/1, with equity and seed capital being finalized for its first insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, Artemis has learned.
New cat bond sponsor interest to continue in 2025, alternative capital to keep flowing: Rousseau, Guy Carpenter
New sponsors should continue to come to the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market through the remainder of 2024 and into 2025, while inflows of alternative capital are expected to continue, according to Guy Carpenter’s CEO of EMEA and Global Capital Solutions, Laurent Rousseau.
Expect more competition in the tail, property cat rates to soften: Aon execs
Speaking during a briefing in advance of the 2024 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous event today, executives from Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions highlighted their expectation that the higher layers of property catastrophe programs will be competitive at the renewals, with softening of rates expected.

This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days. There were 37 new articles published in the last week.

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