Insurance Linked Investments

With the development of a strong El Niño expected to be one of the key drivers of global catastrophe risk during the second half of 2026 and into early 2027, specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Twelve Securis believes that it will also drive a redistribution of risk across the re/insurance and ILS […]

As market volatility continues to drive a rising demand for structured solutions, reinsurers are increasingly forced to handle complex client objectives all at once, and being able to successfully execute these deals requires underwriting, pricing, and capital teams to be well aligned from the very start. In order to tackle this, Northern Re has built […]

CRC Group, a wholesale insurance services and distribution specialist, has launched a new Risk Solutions Division to advance its focus on developing proprietary capacity, capital partnerships and alternative risk solutions, including its reinsurance sidecars, appointing Bill Goldstein to lead the division.

Stone Point Capital LLC, the private equity and credit investment firm with an insurance and reinsurance specialism, has successfully raised $610.5 million in a first close for a new strategy, named the Stone Point Insurance Solutions Fund.

Augment Risk, the risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm, has hired well-known insurance-linked securities market executive Brad Livingston, who joins the firm to strengthen its ILS team and in particular is expected to help grow the private ILS offering in property risk, given his collateralized reinsurance expertise.

A strong insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager is distinguished over a full market cycle by their ability to maintain discipline, limit drawdowns during severe events and ability to avoid reaching for yield late in the cycle, according to Francois Divet, Head of ILS Team at BNP Paribas Asset Management.

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.

After working with Gálapagos Capital SSPE on a recent R$126 million offering of Insurance Risk Letters (LRS), Avla Brazil CEO Felippe Astrachan has said that LRS opens a door that allows the company to explore different types of risks that are not traditionally covered by the insurance and reinsurance market, while also remaining optimistic about […]

Gallagher Re’s new Arthur Re Ltd. platform adds another dimension to the reinsurance broker’s global retrocession offering, and according to Jason Bolding, Global CEO of Gallagher Securities, the platform allows the firm to bring clients more flexible capital solutions while streamlining the issuance process for index-based catastrophe bonds.

Today’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is significantly broader and more resilient than it was just several years ago. However, while the market is seeing growing interest in casualty, specialty, cyber, and hybrid structures, this evolution also means the ILS space is fundamentally more complex, according to Kathleen Faries, CEO of Artex Capital Solutions.