Insurance Linked Investments

Today we have added four more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website, our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. 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.

Insurance-linked securities funds managed by specialist ILS investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP have backed an agreement to acquire the shares of Austrian life insurance specialist company austrion Life.

An awaited consultation process on the regulatory framework for a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that can be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements, including sidecars, and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance has now been launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market remains in a strong position, but expanding into international markets and less conventional perils will be critical for the market’s next stage of growth, according to executives at reinsurance broker Howden Re, who note that this expansion is vital both to unlock diversification benefits and to help close global protection […]

According to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices, catastrophe bond fund strategies in the UCITS format averaged a 0.62% return for the month of June 2026 which beat last year, while the rolling-twelve month return rose slightly to 10.22% as a result of the stronger month.

A new report from S&P Global Ratings highlights a structural shift in the sidecar market, as casualty reinsurance sidecars have grown to account for approximately 10% of total sidecar capacity. Driven by a wave of recent high-profile launches these vehicles are attracting alternative capital by offering returns largely uncorrelated with broader financial markets.

Insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, delivered another positive month of performance in May 2026, averaging a return of 0.43%, according to the ILS Advisers Fund Index

As the sidecar market continues to expand, the traditional view of these vehicles as pure, non-correlated diversifiers is shifting. The growing adoption of casualty and multi-line exposures introduces long-tail dynamics that are inherently tied to broader macroeconomic factors like social and economic inflation. However, according to Kroll, for investors, this transition transforms the valuation process […]

Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has set up and launched a United States domiciled cat bond fund structure to support access to the asset class for US taxable investors and those that cannot invest offshore, Artemis can report.

Catastrophe bond market momentum accelerated through the second-quarter of 2026 and has broken many records, with more than $11.3 billion of new risk capital analysed and tracked in the period, making Q2 2026 the biggest single quarter in the history of the cat bond market and driving H1 to set another high bar, Artemis’ new […]