Insurance Linked Investments

Analysts at J.P. Morgan say that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is returning to health and also point out an interesting fact, that the average return of ILS funds tracked by the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Insurance Linked Securities Fund Index in 2023 actually beat the sum of returns over the previous 9 years.

Fermat Capital Management has been investing into catastrophe bonds ever since John and Nelson Seo launched the company in 2001, so it says something for the current attractiveness of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class when you learn that Fermat’s cat bond funds had their best ever year in 2023.

Today, we are pleased to reveal our agenda, expert moderators and some more speakers for our upcoming insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS NYC 2024 will be held in New York City on February 9th 2024, with hundreds of attendees from the ILS community set to come together for a day of thought-leadership, discussion and valuable […]

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) get a brief mention as a potential area of growth in finance that could “proliferate” as the world deals with a scenario where demand for investment surges, but supply and mobility slows down, in a paper from Bain & Company.

International specialty insurance and reinsurance group Chaucer plc, part of the China Re group of companies, has formally entered the Vesttoo bankruptcy case, filing its appearance soon after having registered a $257 million claim under the court process.

2023 saw the first public Rule 144A cyber catastrophe bonds and these presented an important test for the market, laying the foundations for cyber risk to become an asset and opening the capital markets to those seeking cyber reinsurance and retrocession, Brittany Baker of CyberCube has said.

Swiss Re secured $50 million of cyber industry-loss warranty (ILW) cover recently in a transaction that the broker involved, Gallagher Re, is hailing as the first cyber retrocession ILW ever traded.

French reinsurance company CCR Re has announced a sixth renewal of its long-standing collateralised and securitised reinsurance sidecar vehicle, 157 Re, giving away little in detail again, but saying that the retrocession market was seen as continuing to be “tight” this year.

We have been collecting data and information about, analysing and tracking the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) marketplace for a quarter of a century as Artemis, and we’ve just hit a new milestone as our extensive Deal Directory has now surpassed the one thousand transaction landmark.

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP), a long-standing pension investor in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, has promoted Gillian Brown, an executive who has had responsibility for the ILS allocation activities of the plan for a number of years.