BRAVE Partners is working on bringing non-traditional capacity to provide surplus relief for primary insurance business. The traditional markets feel tight.

BRAVE Partners is working with an experienced investor in the field to bring outstanding opportunities in commodity stocks to investors. The firm sees the opportunity in listed, not private deals.

BRAVE Partners is working with a highly experienced partner to transfer oil spill liability risk to new investor markets. The product brings much needed diversifcation to ILS markets.

BRAVE Partners is advising a loan fund on developing a senior investment product that is attractive to life insurers.

A stand-off is developing between insurers and regulators over the grandfathering rules for some hybrid Tier 1 capital securities issued by insurers. Under the Solvency II rules, all Tier 1 capital must be able to absorb losses on a going concern basis. That is to say that the investors must be in a position where they take losses without being able to wind-up or liquidate the company. In many ways this is the fundamental difference between equity and debt that was perhaps missed in the go-go markets where innovative Tier 1 capital instruments first appeared for financial institutions.

There are more tax advantages than meet the eye in some renewable energy investments.

Hurricane Irene grabbed the headlines, but savvy insurers know that the earthquake that struck Richmond Virginia was the true risk event.

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