Insurance Linked Investments

Broking giant Marsh has bundled its parametric risk transfer specialism under a new umbrella practice of Global Alternative Risk Solutions, which will be led by Christophe Letondot and also tasked with helping clients access ILS capital with the support of Guy Carpenter.

K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton, believes that the forward-looking total yield potential of insurance-linked securities (ILS) remains attractive despite recent spread tightening, leading the manager to keep catastrophe bonds as its top sub-sector pick.

The net asset value of the two share classes of the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund rose by over 61% across the course of 2023, as the investment manager Markel CATCo continued to unlock more value from the fund’s run-off for its investors.

The occurrence of a major cyber catastrophe loss event, while likely to lock-up most of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) capacity already deployed in the sector today, can also provide an opportunity to investors, as it should support understanding and belief in risk models while providing a higher-yielding opportunity, broker Lockton Re has suggested.

The total-return of the outstanding catastrophe bond market for the first-quarter of 2024 has reached 4.57%, according to data from the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, which shows that cat bond market performance is running slightly behind the prior year.

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

The portfolio of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension investment manager that allocates the largest amount to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market on behalf of end-client the Dutch pension PFZW, has shrunk in size by roughly 6% over the first-quarter of 2024.

Having recently spent time meeting with the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at the SIFMA annual conference in March and caught up with other market participants since, we come away with a feeling that the ILS market remains keenly focused on holding onto gains made in recent years, with no ambition to revert back to the […]

In an outlook on the private markets investment sector for the second-quarter of 2024, Schroders Capital Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Nils Rode explains that insurance-linked securities (ILS) are an area of value in the current environment.

For private equity investors, the use of alternative capital vehicles and insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures presents a mature way to take advantage of reinsurance market cycles in an efficient manner, analysts at BMO Capital Markets have highlighted.