Archive for January, 2025

Among the hedge fund investment sectors set to benefit from rising institutional investor interest in 2025, Agecroft Partners believes that reinsurance focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies are “poised to attract substantial capital inflows in 2025.”

Having begun its Eden Re II Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar placements with the largest Class A tranche of notes since 2019, global reinsurer Munich Re has now added the usual Class B issuance, but this tranche has been placed at just $85.5 million, which is the smallest size for that layer since right back in […]

Catastrophe bond fund strategies in the UCITS format have averaged a 13.62% return for full-year 2024, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

Property catastrophe reinsurance rates declined across the globe at the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, with broker Guy Carpenter’s rate-on-line indices for the world, US, Europe and Asia Pacific all falling to start the new year.

TD Insurance, part of Canada’s TD Bank group, is now aiming to reduce the pricing for its debut MMIFS Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond deal, with the price guidance having fallen for the issuance that targets C$150 million in reinsurance from the capital markets for the company, Artemis can report.

Aetna, the health, medical and benefits insurance unit of CVS Health, is back in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and seeking what could become its largest issuance in the long-standing Vitality Re series, as the firm’s sixteenth transaction launches with a target for $250 million of reinsurance from a Vitality Re XVI Ltd (Series 2025) […]

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending January 5th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

Today we are delighted to announce four more expert speakers who will share their insurance-linked securities (ILS) insight with attendees at our upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference in New York on February 7th next year. Tickets are still available, so please register soon to ensure you can join us at the event.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, grew the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management in its range of mutual reinsurance fund strategies to more than $5 billion in the last quarter of record.

Competitive pricing for industry-loss warranty (ILW) protection has driven “considerable interest from a growing demographic of buyers” at the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, according to broker Howden Re.