Ridgecrest California Earthquakes
Event Report: Ridgecrest California earthquake series
Solidum Partners assumes the investment management of the CAT bond funds of Falcon Fund Management
Zurich based Insurance Linked Securities specialist Solidum Partners will assume the asset management of the CAT bond funds of Falcon Fund Management from 1st of August 2019. The current portfolios include the Insurance Linked Strategy and Insurance Opportunities funds. Further product launches are intended under the collaboration.
Peru Earthquake
Event Report: Earthquake Peru
On the morning of May 26, 2019 (7:41 UTC) a severe earthquake occurred in Central Peru. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) half a million people were exposed to severe shaking and close to 7 million felt moderate shaking
The earthquake is not expected to have an influence on the Solidum Funds.
Thoughts on Reinsurance Pricing and Latest Insurtech Developments
‘Clearing’ price technology
With new technology many areas of life are changing, some think for the better and some think for the worse. This is equally true in the reinsurance market where technology is coming in to try to make things more efficient and ‘better’, often in the hope of reducing the price for coverage.
How Insurable is Cyber?
Cyber seems to be close to everyone's thoughts at the moment. At a time that the markets are seeking new business to write with their overcollateralised balance sheets and ILS funds are seeking new products to invest in that are not US hurricane and earthquake, many are turning to cyber. So how well does cyber fit the insurance model?
Welcome to Solidum Partners
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Solidum Partners has been managing investment solutions in the asset class of insurance-linked securities (ILS) since 2004.
Since its foundation, Solidum Partners has been led and managed by its original founding partners and thus stands for stability and continuity in a volatile world. The name 'Solidum', the Latin word for 'solid', is the programme. We look forward to the next 20 years of trustful co-operation with you.
Solidum Partners AG is an independent investment management company specialised in and exclusively dedicated to insurance linked securities (ILS). Based in Zurich, Switzerland, a global centre of reinsurance and ILS, the company offers advisory and portfolio management services for investments in this diversifying asset class.
Solidum Partners is regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and authorised as an asset manager of collective investment schemes.
Sidecars – Is now the right time to be taken for a ride?
Casting one’s mind back to the heady premium days of post Katrina / Wilma, life for the reinsurance market, including the nascent ILS market, was good. It was what in the industry is called a ‘hard market’, a market where terms are hard i.e. high premiums combined with narrow coverage scope. Premiums had sky-rocketed and capacity remained fairly scarce. Once they had put to work their own capital, enterprising reinsurers pondered how to continue to capitalise on this boom time.