Insurance Linked Investments

The Saskatchewan Healthcare Employees’ Pension Plan (SHEPP) saw it’s allocation to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class via managers Aeolus Capital Management and Nephila Capital deliver an impressive 26.4% return in 2023.

The hard market in reinsurance is different this time around, with no evident lack of capital or capacity and this is just one factor that has meant we aren’t seeing a wave of new reinsurance startups, something broker Gallagher Re’s Brian Shea says is likely to persist, except perhaps in the casualty space.

Bermuda-headquartered specialty insurer and reinsurer, AXIS Capital, recently hired Matthew Galbraith, formerly of Parameter Climate and TigerRisk Partners, as an insurance-linked securities (ILS) Analyst.

Apex Group, a large independent financial services provider that also works in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, has secured a significant financing backed by Carlyle and Goldman Sachs, with over $1.1 billion committed.

Northern Reinsurance SPC, Ltd. (Northern Re), the Cayman Islands based collateralized reinsurance company that provides an opportunity for investors to source returns from its long-tail casualty underwriting business, has announced an asset management partnership with Jaffa Capital Management.

CatX, a digital catastrophe and parametric risk exchange start-up, has announced that James Robinson, a Bermuda-based technology expert who previously worked in data science at re/insurer Hamilton, has been appointed to the CatX Bermuda board.

SCOR, the France-headquartered global reinsurance company, continues to build out its risk partnership and third-party capital capabilities, with the latest hire to come to light being Tony Nguyen, an experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) structuring and investment banking executive who joins the reinsurer from Goldman Sachs.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has hired experienced alternative investment and capital markets executive Katherine Park as its new Head of Capital Formation and Investor Relations.

Broking group Gallagher has filed a motion to dismiss the Vesttoo transaction related lawsuit brought against its reinsurance arm Gallagher Re by Porch Group, the owner of insurer Homeowners of America Insurance Company (HOA), saying that “the claim falls well short of the plausibility threshold.”

This video features the final insurance-linked securities (ILS) expert panel of the day at our Artemis ILS NYC 2024 conference, which was held in New York on February 9th 2024.