Insurance Linked Investments

Global re/insurer Generali is the latest to enter the Lloyd’s market with what seems a sidecar-like syndicate as a way to enhance and make its reinsurance arrangements more efficient, while the announcements points to the potential for alternative and capital markets to be involved.

Josh Wander, one of the co-founders of investment firm 777 Partners, has pled guilty to wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with a $500 million plus scheme to defraud lenders and investors of the company.

Nascent Re Ltd. a licensed reinsurance transformer owned and operated by Bermuda-based Nascent Group, has issued another $36 million of preferred share insurance-linked securities, across two series named Plymouth and Warwick.

Marsh clients are exploring greater use of third-party capital solutions, including sidecars for liability portfolios, as abundant reinsurance capacity and relatively benign catastrophe losses keep market conditions competitive ahead of the January 1 renewals, according to John Doyle, the firm’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Artex Capital Solutions, the insurance-linked securities market service provider and insurance management specialist, has bolstered its Bermuda advisory team with the addition of two new hires, in Michael Kenny and Andrew Hanley.

Speaking yesterday at the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2026 conference, Bob Smith, President & Co-CIO of fixed income and alternative solutions manager Sage Advisory, explained that he sees insurance-linked securities as an asset class that can expand the horizon of impact investing.

For investors in the insurance-linked securities asset class, when pitching a potential allocation to their investment committees the task is helped by the fact ILS has a strong narrative to tell, when it comes to proving its diversification benefits and has the data to support that, speakers at the Convergence 2026 conference in Bermuda said […]

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.

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.