Insurance Linked Investments

Global reinsurance company Swiss Re said today that its third-party capital markets focused Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division is supporting its long-term growth trajectory in natural catastrophe risks.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that specialises in a technology and data-driven approach to allocation across liquid asset classes, has hired former Schroders executive Daniel Ineichen to lead an insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategy.

We’ve now published the full video of our recent Capital markets structures for originators (sidecars for MGA’s) live webinar that was held on November 21st 2024 and featured insurance-linked security (ILS) and reinsurance industry experts discussing the developing trend of risk originators using ILS structures, to source capital markets risk and partnership capacity.

Further innovation in risk modelling and policy standardisation can help the cyber insurance and reinsurance community unlock more support from the capital markets through catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets, the Geneva Association has explained.

France headquartered global reinsurance firm SCOR said today that it has added three new risk partners in 2024 so far, as it continues to expand its third-party capital relationships and activities under Risk Partnerships, while seeing its 2026 target for fee income growth from this business as on track.

Investor optimism remains strong for catastrophe bonds and reinsurance sidecars, but when it comes to collateralized reinsurance that optimism still lags, but institutional investors are positively working to address issues that have made allocating fresh capital more of a challenge in private ILS and collateralized reinsurance, according to Artex.

MetLife, Inc., one of the largest life and annuities insurance groups in the world, is partnering with institutional capital providers and asset managers to launch Chariot Reinsurance, a new Bermuda based company that will initially act as a kind of sidecar for the company, but seems well-positioned to become market-facing in future.

With catastrophe bond market yields still elevated by historical standards, Dirk Schmelzer, Head Portfolio Manager for ILS / CAT Bonds and a Partner at Plenum Investments AG, believes catastrophe bond funds can deliver high single-digit to low double-digit returns in 2025, on a no loss basis.

There is now less than two months to go until our upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference in New York on February 7th next year, and today we are delighted to announce four more expert speakers you can hear from on the day, if you register to attend our event.

Global insurance giant Allianz has sponsored a life and annuity focused reinsurance sidecar named Sconset Re Ltd., securing backing from institutional investors to capitalise the structure and partnering with PIMCO as well as other institutions for asset management support.