Insurance Linked Investments

Howden Tiger, the reinsurance broker and risk capital advisory, has promoted two capital markets focused executives, Michael Forman and John Stamatis, who have been named Co-Heads of North America for Howden Tiger Capital Markets & Advisory (HTCMA).

Specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter the Canopius Group has hired well-known insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused executive Brent Slade in Bermuda, who will become the firm’s new Head of ILS and have a remit to expand ILS activities for the Group, Artemis has learned.

Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) has announced the launch of a new Missouri-domiciled third-party life reinsurance sidecar company named Ruby Reinsurance Company (Ruby Re), which has been backed by a number of investors including insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist Hudson Structured Capital Management.

For insurance-linked securities and reinsurance-linked investment manager Twelve Capital, while 2023 has been another year of above average global insured catastrophe losses, the managers ILS and catastrophe bond fund strategies have been largely insulated from impacts.

This video features an insightful panel discussion on ILS investment sentiment from our Artemis London 2023 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

Argenta Private Capital Limited (APCL), an FCA regulated adviser to investors in the Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance market, has teamed up with Helios Underwriting PLC (Helios), an AIM listed investment company, on a unique, curated structure for investors to access the returns of the Lloyd’s of London market.

Vantage Risk, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has plans to leverage third-party capital in a broader set of underwriting lines in future and now with over $1.5 billion of capital to deploy using its AdVantage collateralized insurer class of company, 2024 could be the year it expands into non-cat risk, Chris McKeown told […]

The Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of insurtech Vesttoo have filed a request with the court to allow them to conduct legal discovery on the main bank named in the letter of credit (LOC) reinsurance collateral fraud, China Construction Bank.

The Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index is set to achieve a record high annual return in 2023, as a strong showing in October has taken the average return of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds it tracks to 12.28% for the first ten months of this year.

LGT ILS Partners, the specialist dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment unit of the private bank and asset manager LGT Capital Partners, is confident that market conditions are going to remain attractive into 2024, even expecting some marginal price increases in certain areas of the reinsurance renewals.