Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: FSR) announced today that
Flagstone Réassurance Suisse SA, has purchased three years of fully
collateralized retrocessional coverage from Montana Re Ltd. ("Montana
Re”). Montana Re, a special purpose reinsurer established in the Cayman
Islands in 2009, was designed to permit the issuance of multiple series
of bonds. This transaction marks the second takedown of notes from the
structure.
Montana Re offers Flagstone protection on its reinsurance portfolio
through three separate tranches, utilizing the Risk Management Solutions
(RMS®) Paradex index trigger for U.S. hurricane and earthquake, Japan
typhoon and earthquake, Europe windstorm, and for the first time, Cayman
Islands hurricane. Montana Re has issued USD $70 million of Series 2010
– 1, Class C Principal-at-Risk Variable Rate Notes due January 8, 2014,
USD $80 million of Series 2010-1, Class D Principal-at-Risk Variable
Rate Notes due January 8, 2014, and USD $60 million of Series 2010-1,
Class E Principal-at-risk Variable Rate Notes due January 8, 2014 to
collateralize its obligations under the retrocession agreements. Risk
analysis for the transaction was performed by RMS.
David Brown, Flagstone CEO, commented: "We are very pleased with the
result of this transaction. We have continued to demonstrate our ability
to access the capital markets to diversify our sources of coverage and
have benefitted from the efficiencies of purchasing cover over
multi-year periods. These transactions continue to reinforce our capital
strength and attractiveness as a quality partner for our clients.”
About Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A.
Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, S.A., through its operating
subsidiaries, is a global reinsurance and insurance company that employs
a focused and technical approach to the Property Catastrophe, Property,
and Specialty reinsurance and insurance businesses.
The Company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
"FSR" and the Bermuda Stock Exchange under the symbol "FSR BH".
Additional financial information and other items of interest are
available at the Company's website located at http://www.flagstonere.com.
About RMS
Risk Management Solutions is the world’s leading provider of products
and services for catastrophe risk management. More than 400 leading
insurers, reinsurers, trading companies, and other financial
institutions rely on RMS models to quantify, manage, and transfer risk.
Founded at Stanford University in 1988, RMS serves clients today from
offices in the U.S., Bermuda, the U.K., France, Switzerland, India,
China, and Japan. For more information, visit our website at www.rms.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This report may contain, and the Company may from time to time make,
written or oral "forward-looking statements” within the
meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws, which are made pursuant to
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements rely on a number of
assumptions concerning future events and are subject to a number of
uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the Company’s
control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such
statements. In particular, statements using words such as
"may”,
"should”, "estimate”, "expect”, "anticipate”, "intend”, "believe”,
"predict”, "potential”, or words of similar import generally involve
forward-looking statements.
Important events and uncertainties that could cause the actual results
to differ include, but are not necessarily limited to: market conditions
affecting the Company’s common share price; the possibility of severe or
unanticipated losses from natural or man-made catastrophes; the
effectiveness of our loss limitation methods; our dependence on
principal employees; the cyclical nature of the reinsurance business;
the levels of new and renewal business achieved; opportunities to
increase writings in our core property and specialty reinsurance and
insurance lines of business and in specific areas of the casualty
reinsurance market; the sensitivity of our business to financial
strength ratings established by independent rating agencies; the
estimates reported by cedents and brokers on pro-rata contracts and
certain excess of loss contracts where the deposit premium is not
specified in the contract; the inherent uncertainties of establishing
reserves for loss and loss adjustment expenses, our reliance on industry
loss estimates and those generated by modeling techniques; unanticipated
adjustments to premium estimates; changes in the availability, cost or
quality of reinsurance or retrocessional coverage; changes in general
economic conditions; changes in governmental regulation or tax laws in
the jurisdictions where we conduct business; the amount and timing of
reinsurance recoverables and reimbursements we actually receive from our
reinsurers; the overall level of competition, and the related demand and
supply dynamics in our markets relating to growing capital levels in the
reinsurance industry; declining demand due to increased retentions by
cedents and other factors; the impact of terrorist activities on the
economy; and rating agency policies and practices.
These and other events that could cause actual results to differ are
discussed in more detail from time to time in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as
a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
required by U.S. federal securities laws. Readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date on which they are made.
