Hamilton, Bermuda – July 18, 2018 – Pillar Capital Holdings Limited (“Pillar” or the “Company”), a Bermuda-based insurance asset manager focused on collateralized reinsurance and catastrophe insurance-linked securities, today announced that Jeff Franklin has been appointed Chief Underwriting Officer, effective immediately.
Hamilton, Bermuda – June 24, 2014 – Pillar Capital Holdings Limited (“Pillar”), a Bermuda-based insurance asset manager specializing in collateralized reinsurance and catastrophe insurance-linked securities, today announced that shareholders Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. (“TransRe”) and the Pillar executive management have increased their ownership position in Pillar to fifty percent each, bringing their combined ownership to 100%. […]
Hamilton, Bermuda – June 18, 2013 – Pillar Capital Holdings Limited (“Pillar” or the “Company”), a Bermuda-based insurance asset manager focused on collateralized reinsurance and catastrophe insurance-linked securities, today announced that Stephen A. Velotti has been appointed Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Mr. Velotti, 46, brings nearly 25 years of insurance and reinsurance experience to […]
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This linked and publicly-available article discusses The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System decision to invest with Pillar.
The attached article highlights aspects of Pillar’s approach.
The linked article provides insights on how reinsurance market pricing is firming up slightly more than expected.
Pillar Capital is profiled in this linked article because it received Hedgeweek’s award for Best Insurance-Linked Securities Hedge Fund.
This linked, publically available article about alternative reinsurance investing indicates capital is shifting to better established ILS funds, according to analysts at Peel Hunt.
The linked publically available article discusses the revived interest in reinsurance as an asset class for investment.
This article, which is linked with permission from Reinsurance News, aptly articulates the pricing expectations in reinsurance renewals.
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This article, which is reprinted with permission from ARTEMIS, explores the premise that the overall size and scale of a reinsurance partner is deemed less important than having a well-diversified panel of reinsurers.
This publically available article is included as it discusses asset allocation and, in particular, alternative investments.
We believe the following article, reprinted with permission from Trading Risk, highlights interesting points about the ILS asset class versus high yield debt and investment grade bonds.
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Non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital grew again in the first quarter of 2017, continuing the trend from 2016, according to the latest ILS Market Update from Willis Towers Watson Securities.
“Recent rise in interest rate is not expected to impact allocation of alternative capital to the industry as pension funds and asset managers view them more from diversification benefit vs. pure returns,” reports Morgan Stanley.
A new analysis suggests that the climatic trends that lead to greater hurricane activity also create a coastal buffer that weakens storms at landfall.
Investors continue to show increased interest in reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as a diversifying asset class, reports Artemis.
Letting familiarity, rather than clearheaded analysis, guide your decisions can be a lot more costly in areas like saving for retirement.
We believe the following article, reprinted with permission from Trading Risk, makes some interesting points about the current risk vs. reward characteristics of the reinsurance marketplace, especially where leverage is concerned. We remind the reader that terms like “Expected Profit”, “Expected Loss”, “Tail Risk”, and “Tail Loss” are descriptive terms which compare current conditions to historical events, are no guarantee of performance, and that all investments carry a risk of loss.
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This publically available article from The New York Times Magazine is informative in the way that it describes the progress made in the science of weather prediction.
This linked article by Artemis articulates the heavy concentration in US wind perils by ILS markets.
Trading Risk announces Itochu Corporation’s equity investment in Juniperus Capital Ltd.
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With the merging in 2008 of Aon and Benfield, the broker had two investment management firms for the (re)insurance asset class to choose from, Trading Risk publishes.
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