Insurance Linked Investments

Reinsurance capital reached a record high of $790 billion by the end of Q1 2026, but it was alternative or third-party reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities and related collateralized structures, which was the sole driver of growth as it reached $141 billion, rising 4% from the end of the year, according to […]

Cambridge Associates, the global investment firm that provides specialist advisory and portfolio construction services, highlights insurance-linked securities, seeing the asset class as a valuable diversifier for client portfolios.

The amount of non-life alternative reinsurance capital from catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) grew by more than 5% just in the first-quarter of the year, with Gallagher Securities estimating $7 billion of incremental capital was added, to take non-life ILS capital outstanding to $142 billion at the end of Q1 2026.

The Victory Pioneer CAT Bond Fund has now surpassed the $2 billion in assets under management milestone, extending its AUM to $2.2 billion by June 30th 2026. The combined AUM across dedicated mutual and institutional insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds managed by the Pioneer Investments team has now grown to over $5.8 billion.

Stone Ridge Asset Management has grown assets under management across its mutual catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities and reinsurance fund strategies by more than 8% in the last quarter of record, with additional AUM growth in the following weeks taking them to around $7 billion, a new all-time high.

Reinsurance as an asset class now deserves a place among KKR’s latest Capital Market Assumptions (CMAs), with the investment giant explaining that portfolio construction and private market assets are rising in importance, as a broad beta approach to investing is less appropriate at this stage of the economic, financial and capital market cycle.

Insurance Capital Markets Research (ICMR) has launched a new index to enhance its reporting for insurance investors that promises to enhance the transparency of investing into the Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance market, while providing useful data to help in capital deployment decision making.

The extent to whether catastrophe bonds have truly become a mainstream investment product was a key discussion point during Artemis’ 2026 Bermuda ILS Executive Roundtable, in which experts from across the ILS sector discussed whether rated bonds, pooled ILS offerings, and enhanced secondary liquidity are ready to unlock vast new sources of traditional capital.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signalled that a long-awaited consultation on new laws to establish a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that could be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance is coming soon.

The Florida State Board of Administration has reiterated its view that, with property catastrophe reinsurance rates softening fast catastrophe exposed insurance-linked securities (ILS) could become less attractive and the investor is even envisioning a potential “significant reduction” if the direction of travel persists.