Insurance Linked Investments

Although there are investors waiting on the side-lines of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market with an interest in responsible transactions, there’s still a need for a minimum return which outweighs the importance of liquidity and diversification, according to industry experts.

This video features another panel discussion from our Artemis ILS Asia 2023 conference, held in Singapore on July 13th 2023, a session focused on public sector and sovereign risk transfer schemes and the use of catastrophe bonds and capital markets capacity.

Speaking at the Convergence 2023 event in Bermuda yesterday, John Seo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Fermat Capital Management, explained that there is significant investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) right now, but when it comes to allocating, capital is slower moving these days.

At the Convergence 2023 conference in Bermuda today, speakers from insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers explained that the market remains smaller than is really desired and there is a need to continue efforts to make it more scalable, to meet the needs of larger investors.

The Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of insurtech Vesttoo has now filed a request with the court to allow them to conduct legal discovery on insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon and certain related entities that have been exposed to the letter of credit fraud issues.

Right now, there is an opportunity for institutional investors to harvest “the most pronounced risk-adjusted returns” from allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS), according to Jo Stanton, Chair of ILS Bermuda and Head of Finance at Tangency Capital, speaking this morning at Convergence 2023.

Signal Iduna Reinsurance Ltd. (SI Re), the Swiss based reinsurer located in the city of Zug, has announced the promotion of current head of ILS Markets & Retrocession Dr Robert Salzmann to become the firm’s Head of Underwriting as well as his current responsibilities.

Bermuda continues to be the world-leading insurance-linked securities (ILS) domicile, with the vast majority of the catastrophe bond market and a significant proportion of the rest of the ILS market, domiciled or serviced on the island, while its industry continues to drive forwards reinsurance and capital markets Convergence.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market currently represents one of the most attractive markets in which to invest since the ILS market came into being, according to Doug Abbott, Head of UK Intermediary at Schroders.

Inver Re, the reinsurance broking arm of the Ardonagh Group, has hired experienced capital markets executive Mark Shumway as its new Head of Advisory.