Archive for October, 2026

PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited has now reported that its new US $12 million issuance of insurance-linked securities under its Great Wall Re Limited special purpose insurer is actually a quota share reinsurance sidecar, the first in Hong Kong, designed to provide protection to its offshore wind power property insurance book on the Chinese […]

Casualty insurance-linked securities transactions are complex and require strong alignment, which makes finding strategic partners and understanding their motivations key, while at the same time given the complexity of arrangements such as casualty sidecars, realistic timelines are important, Philippe Trahan of Calidris Investment Partners said yesterday.

At the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2026 conference today, Karen Clark, CEO and Co-founder of catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company, urged the insurance-linked securities community and its investors to ask for alternative model views to be included in the deal flow that comes to market.

Verisk, a catastrophe risk modelling and data analytics specialist, has now issued an initial industry insured loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias, saying that onshore property losses from the storm could reach $2 billion.

Specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP is monitoring investor appetite for different ILS products, while leveraging artificial intelligence to increase productivity and improve its risk analysis, CEO Luca Albertini told Artemis.

Speaking ahead of the 2026 Baden-Baden gathering, Leopoldo Camara, Head of P&C Reinsurance Northern, Central & Eastern Europe at Swiss Re outlined that more reinsurance capital is needed in the market to address growing, interconnected risks, while also emphasising that the reinsurer will use its deep risk expertise to align alternative capital where it makes sense.

Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has issued a parametric payout to the Mexican federal government for the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico’s southern coast in July, and activated Safehub’s Shake Network trigger.

Captives are rapidly evolving from risk retention vehicles into strategic capital access platforms, which in turn is beginning to attract third-party capital, according to broker Aon, who emphasises that captive owners are increasingly partnering with external investors to unlock capacity that supports growth initiatives and long-term resilience.

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has placed an initial insurance industry loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias in the range of $2 billion to $4 billion, noting there is the potential for the storm’s losses to add to aggregate structures.

While the industry has spent considerable time implementing ways that capital enters ILS vehicles, the mechanism for how it exits has often been treated as an afterthought. Artex Capital Solutions is dedicating effort towards building vehicles that provide a clear entry and a clear exit, with CEO Kathleen Faries emphasising that delivering clarity at the […]