ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has appointed former senior Swiss Re executive and ILS specialist Martin Bisping to become the new Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Icosa Investments AG has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Raffaele Dell’Amore as a Partner and member of the firm’s management team. In this role, he will lead the continued expansion and institutionalisation of Icosa’s offering, with a particular focus on catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

Welcome to Artemis’ 2026 Bermuda ILS Executive Roundtable, during which leaders and experts from across the insurance-linked securities sector discussed the momentum being seen in catastrophe bonds and ILS this year, as well as the continued importance of Bermuda’s role in the market.

Today we are excited to begin announcing expert speakers for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.

UCITS catastrophe bond funds delivered an average return of 0.36% through the month of May, taking the year-to-date 2026 return through May 29th to 2.28%, while rolling twelve month performance declined slightly to 10.18%, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

Cedar Trace, the Bermuda-based insurance, reinsurance, and asset management group, has announced the hiring of well-known industry executive Chris Wilson to its insurance-linked securities leadership, further strengthening its team and bringing meaningful operation experience in ILS.

RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the specialist division of the reinsurer, lifted its third-party investor capital managed across joint-venture reinsurance and insurance-linked securities strategies by around 7% over the last year, to end March 2026 with $8.46 billion of assets under management.

Insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, delivered an average return of 0.53% for the month of April 2026, according to the ILS Advisers Fund Index which saw all tracked strategies reporting so far as positive for the month.

Swiss Re has appointed long-standing senior employee Martin Zingg as the new head of its Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division, as incumbent to the role Chris Minter is set to retire from the global reinsurance company.

The Florida State Board of Administration, which manages allocations to insurance-linked securities funds and reinsurance strategies on behalf of the giant Florida Retirement System Pension Plan, has said it is likely to reduce its exposure to property catastrophe risk as expected mean loss returns have declined.