Insurance Linked Investments

Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has promoted Ciaran Healy to the role of Global Captive Leader for the firm’s Commercial Risk Solutions division, a position that will see him also with responsibility for the management of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and protected cell structures as well.

Farsight Partners, a specialist UK-based boutique advisory with a focus on life insurance-linked investment opportunities, has agreed a partnership with global alternative investment manager AB CarVal with up to $1 billion of life and health insurance related transactions in scope.

Catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices averaged a 1% return for November, taking their year-to-date return to an average of 12.57%.

As the Atlantic hurricane season drew to its close, the overall yield of the catastrophe bond market continued its typical seasonal declining trend, albeit at a slightly slower pace as there were also supply-demand factors evident in the market, but still by the end of November 2024, the cat bond market yield stood at a […]

The Brazilian insurance regulator SUSEP has now authorised the first insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure in the country, with Andrina sponsored by IRB Re and now approved to issue Letra de Risco de Seguro (Insurance Risk Letters), which is the name for the insurance-linked notes a Brazilian ILS structure can issue to be sold to investors.

During the Geneva Association’s media call on Global Risks & Insurance, Darren Pain, Director of Cyber, highlighted his expectation for continued growth in the cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, though he noted this growth is likely to be gradual due to ongoing challenges.

Speaking at a Fitch Ratings event on the development of insurance-linked securities (ILS) in Brazil, Rodrigo Botti, former CFO of IRB and former CEO of Terra Brasis, emphasised a domestic market-first approach, with no intention of competing with other established ILS hubs.

Today, we are delighted to announce that casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) and investment opportunities in parametric risk transfer structures, will be the focus of two main panel sessions at our upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference in New York on February 7th next year.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, looks set to be the latest to offer a UCITS insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund, with a fund structure now registered in Ireland under its Medici brand, so presumably this will be a cat bond strategy, Artemis has learned.

Ledger Investing, the insurance technology (insurtech) and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused company, has now surpassed $2 billion in casualty ILS placements with institutional investors.