Insurance Linked Securities Interviews

While the broader catastrophe bond market often adopts a wait-and-see posture until the Atlantic hurricane season passes, the current 2026 landscape suggests that the most compelling value may be found during this window of peak uncertainty, according to Ethan Powell, Principal & Chief Investment Officer of Brookmont Capital Management, LLC.

Although insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance have traditionally involved multiple parties, the supporting infrastructure for both has continued to be disjointed. In light of this, the concept of a shared platform and a cohesive data layer for contracts would not merely enhance efficiency; it would also establish a foundation for alignment and trust throughout the […]

Coming off a record-breaking 2025, the catastrophe bond market has continued to expand further throughout the opening quarter of 2026, however as the sponsor base and rate of issuance continues to grow, this is creating a need for greater efficiency and more talent within the market, according to Jeff Davis, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, […]

While Hannover Re has expanded its range of insurance-linked securities services and facilitation, responding to market demand, the company sees collateralised fronting as the centrepiece of this capital market focused aspect of its global reinsurance operations, executives Silke Sehm and Patrick Horstmann told us in an interview.

Property Claim Services (PCS), the unit of Verisk that is a provider of industry loss estimates and loss data to the reinsurance and ILS industry, has provided us a detailed overview of the processes the organisation uses to designate and estimate insurance industry losses for perils such as U.S. tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms, and winter […]

This new video features another panel discussion from Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the cat bond marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.

The Japanese market represents a material opportunity for future expansion in non-cat sidecars as the broader non-cat sidecar market continues to grow through an influx of new sponsors and heightened activity, according to Bill Dubinsky, Managing Director and Chairman of Gallagher Securities.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, Augment Risk is positioning parametric triggers not merely as a peripheral alternative, but as a central, diversifying asset class defined by its structural independence from traditional indemnity-based retrocession, a shift the firm believes is fundamental to unlocking the next phase of third-party capital allocation.

The launch of Hiscox Capital Partners, which brings together under a single structure all the capital partnership activity that Hiscox Re has managed for nearly two decades, represents a natural evolution for Hiscox, as it allows the firm to go to market with a broader, more coherent proposition that meets capital partners where they are, […]

Our latest video features the opening panel discussion of the day at Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the private insurance-linked securities marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.