Insurance Linked Investments

A return to stability in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, and more broadly across reinsurance, is now starting to drive an uptick in investor interest and Artex Capital Solutions believes this will benefit both catastrophe bonds and the collateralized reinsurance side of the market.

With catastrophe bond issuance so far in 2024 outpacing prior years and supply and demand dynamics contributing to an increase in spreads in recent weeks, Dirk Schmelzer, Managing Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at Plenum Investments, the Zurich-headquartered manager of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related assets, feels the market is in a very healthy and […]

SCOR, the France-headquartered global reinsurance company, has promoted longstanding retrocession and third-party capital partnerships executive Benoît Liot to the new role of Head of Risk Partnerships, which will see him lead on activities with third-party investors, while retrocession will be centralised beneath his leadership.

We return to London on Tuesday September 3rd for our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, with Artemis London 2024 our third event held in the city. Registration is open, so you can secure your place at the event today.

With the Atlantic hurricane season officially underway as of June 1st and forecasts calling for a particularly active year, insurance-linked securities investment manager Twelve Capital believes investors with a long-term view are well-compensated for shouldering this exposure.

After capital buffers were eroded for insurers through 2023, a renewed focus on reinsurance as a capital management and growth lever has emerged, while broker Aon says that reinsurance capital and third-party capital are expected to be two of the three main capital tools utilised in future.

AXA XL ILS Capital Management, the alternative reinsurance capital division of the commercial insurance and reinsurance unit of the AXA Group, is set to use Clearwater Analytics as a provider of investment accounting services.

The combined assets under management of the main catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format have now surpassed $12 billion for the first time ever, nearing $12.2 billion by the end of May 2024 and now having risen by over 11% so far this year.

Cayman headquartered reinsurance company Oxbridge Re has reported that the firm’s first series of tokenized reinsurance sidecar securities have now realised a 49% return for the investors backing them, surpassing both initial and updated expectations.

Artex, the captive, alternative risk transfer, insurance-linked securities (ILS) facilitation and capital solutions subsidiary of Gallagher, has announced that its CEO Peter Mullen is to vacate that position, to become Chairman, and that Gallagher EVP Zeb Holt will transition into the CEO position from July.