Insurance Linked Investments

Vesttoo has added another important appointment, hiring Dan Dijak, who was most recently at AM RE Syndicates, as its Vice President of Insurance Markets in the US.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based asset manager with a focus on alternative risk premia strategies including reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), saw its overall assets across its mutual ILS funds shrink slightly in the last quarter of record.

The stage is set for catastrophe bond prices to recover from their current levels back to the long-term mean over the next six to nine months, according to Dirk Lohmann, Chairman, Schroders Capital ILS.

While recent years have made it very clear that the insurance and reinsurance market pricing cycle continues to respond to factors including loss activity, capital availability and broader macro-economic pressures on the industry, investors and underwriters tend to hold inverse views on the market opportunity in both soft and hard market cycles.

So long as deal economics are favourable and supported by a material sample of risk data, there’s an opportunity to pilot cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) solutions, according to specialist provider of software for cyber risk quantification for large industrial and critical infrastructure corporates, DeNexus.

The fourth panel session of our ILS NYC 2022 conference that was held in New York back in April, saw industry experts debate the responsibility of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class, asking how climate and ESG fit into this.

It’s becoming clear that some constituents of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market are taking advantage of opportunities presented during the current period of reinsurance market dislocation and the lack of capacity in certain areas of the sector.

Rate increases secured by insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and collateralized reinsurance vehicles at the mid-year reinsurance renewals are likely to be higher than had been expected when the negotiations began, sources have told Artemis.

Investment funds in the private capital markets sector increasingly need to be seen to be quickly moving towards, or having already implemented, a rigorous environmental, social and governance (ESG) policy, or they could risk falling outside of many institutional investor’s consideration.

Speedwell Climate, a leading provider of weather, catastrophe and climate data, indices and settlement services, has teamed up with the European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT) on the launch of a set of weather-based power indices to provide risk management and hedging opportunities to the renewables sector.