Insurance Linked Investments

This video features an expert panel discussing both catastrophe bond and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) market trends from our Artemis London 2023 conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has returned to the capital markets to refresh its retrocessional protection from the Eden Re II Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar for 2024, with the first tranche of notes to come to light being $28.5 million of Series 2024-1 Class A notes.

Today, we are excited to announce the second wave of speakers confirmed for our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. ILS NYC 2024 will be held in New York City on February 9th 2024, with around 400 attendees from the ILS community expected to come together for a day of thought-leadership, discussion and valuable networking.

Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, is anticipating that investors in the first series of tokenized reinsurance securities issued by its subsidiary SurancePlus Inc. will receive a roughly 42% return for the first treaty year.

The enactment of legislative reforms targeted at the insurance market in Florida has opened the runway for tens of billions in fresh capital to flow into the state from investors, John Seo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Fermat Capital Management said at an event last week.

It appears that, in aggregate, creditors to the bankruptcy of forged reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) linked insurtech Vesttoo have filed over $4.8 billion in claims against the company and its entities, which provides another signal of the ramifications of and amount of value the market feels has been lost due to the fraud.

Over the next two decades, as the cyber insurance and reinsurance market grows, there is the potential for cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) volumes to reach $100 billion, equalling where catastrophe risk in the capital market sits today, according to Mike Millette, Managing Partner at Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., and Board Member at CyberCube.

While the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector has strengthened its governance practices considerably in recent years, when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, ILS manager selection really matters, as there is variation in how ESG has been adopted and practices are followed, according to Frontier Advisors.

The catastrophe bond market needs to price appropriately for so-called secondary perils and stop giving them a “free-ride”, as there is a need to continue offering this type of typically frequency or aggregate style reinsurance protection, but investors must be adequately compensated for it, Tenax Capital has said.

Helios Underwriting PLC (Helios), the AIM listed Lloyd’s focused insurance and reinsurance investment company, has increased its forecast for capacity for 2024 to £501 million, helped by its recently announced third-party capital arrangement which its CEO terms a sidecar for the company.