Essent Group unveils $439m ILS deal

Bermuda-based mortgage insurance provider  Essent's wholly-owned subsidiary  Essent Guaranty has closed a $439.4 million reinsurance deal with Radnor Re 2020-1.

The newly-formed Bermuda special purpose insurer will provide fully collateralised excess of loss reinsurance coverage on Essent mortgage insurance policies written between April and September 2021

Radnor Re 2020-1 is funding the reinsurance through four classes of mortgage insurance-linked notes, with 10-year legal maturities, to eligible third party capital markets investors in an unregistered private offering.

Radnor Re was the first mortgage insurance note vehicle of 2020 Essent Guaranty sponsored and is its seventh mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction.

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