Insurance Linked Investments

Vantage Risk, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has made two leadership adjustments of relevance to the firm’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategy under its AdVantage collateralized insurer.

The fourth session of the day at our Artemis ILS NYC 2023 conference, held in New York on February 10th, saw industry leaders discussing the expansion of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class and what new or emerging opportunities are now available to investors.

Global reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has strengthened its cyber reinsurance team and as part of that promoted Zain Awan to the newly created role of International Cyber ILS Lead.

Catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format are rapidly approaching a combined $10 billion of assets under management (AUM), with another $372 million added in just the last two months.

Factorial Funds, a Los Angeles headquartered global asset manager, historically better known for investment strategies with a technology, venture capital and growth equity focus, is entering the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, while also looking at other reinsurance opportunities as well.

The design of the recently announced Climate Resilient Development Bond (CRD Bond), an insurance-linked security (ILS) hybrid that integrates catastrophe bond protection and investment in climate resilience, was driven in part by the trend towards risks becoming uninsurable, according to Julian Enoizi, Global Head of Public Sector at Guy Carpenter.

According to reports, the Chinese financial regulator and Shanghai government leaders have jointly announced the launch of a new reinsurance strategy that aims to bring digital trading of reinsurance risks to Shanghai.

Fleming Insurance Holdings has received positive feedback from the investor community as it works towards the launch of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform focused on the emerging and exciting casualty ILS space, explained Eric Haller, Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

A new financial structure that can provide community-based climate insurance or risk transfer protection from the capital markets, while incorporating resilience, advanced funding for loss-prevention and mitigation, through an insurance-linked security (ILS) designed structure has been proposed.

Japan Post Insurance is set to make an investment into a reinsurance sidecar-like co-investment vehicle sponsored by United States life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company, Global Atlantic Financial Group.