Insurance Linked Investments

This video features an expert panel discussing cyber catastrophe bond market trends at our Artemis ILS NYC 2024 conference, which was held in New York on February 9th 2024.

Having only launched its business at the beginning of this year, Icosa Investments, the Swiss catastrophe bond focused investment manager launched by co-founders the former Twelve Capital executive Florian Steiger and Swiss financial services and capital markets specialist Jordan Nickerson, has already surpassed $100 million in assets.

Despite the slowdown in the collateralised reinsurance marketplace in recent years, global reinsurer Hannover Re continues to place more limit on behalf of investor and ILS fund partners, growing this segment of its business again in full-year 2023.

Nascent Group, an insurance management and reinsurance transformer company launched by Andre Perez to reimagine the insurance-linked securities (ILS) servicing space, has made two key hires, bringing former Horseshoe and Artex expertise back together, with Yulanda Francis and Shehan Ranasinghe joining the firm.

Issuance of new catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) has already reached $10.9 billion in 2024 and has now broken the record for the first-half, while the amount of cat bond and related ILS risk capital outstanding has reached another new high as the market continues to grow.

We are delighted to announce four more expert speakers who will join us and share their insights with attendees at our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in Singapore, ILS Asia 2024, which takes place on July 11th at the Suntec Convention Centre.

The maturity and importance of the catastrophe bond product has seen the asset class become more than just another option and develop into a strategic, tactical play for both investors and issuers, according to experts at Acrisure Re.

Thanks to the very strong earnings generated by capital deployed into the reinsurance market last year and an expectation that strong earnings can persist through full-year 2024, analysts at Moody’s Investors Service believe investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) could prove to be stronger than had been expected.

Even in a state of increased event activity driven by a changing climate, allocating to insurance-linked strategies (ILS) can generate attractive returns for investors, according to a whitepaper from LGT ILS Partners, the specialist dedicated ILS investment unit of the private bank and asset manager LGT Capital Partners.

Artemis is now a quarter of a century old! We celebrated our 25th birthday last week with a team gathering, reflecting on more than $170 billion of catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) transactions tracked, with hundreds of billions more in assets deployed to insurance risks covered by us over the years.