Insurance Linked Investments

A new insurance-linked securities (ILS) marketplace provider has been registered in Bermuda and has joined the regulatory sandbox of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), with the Blackbird ILS Marketplace promising to bring securitized cyber and specialty lines business to investors in a fixed income format.

Isosceles Insurance Ltd., the private insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond issuance platform operated by Marsh McLennan and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, has completed another transaction, with a $21.5 million Isosceles Insurance Ltd. (Series 2021-H) issued.

Munich Re Ventures, the insurtech and related risk technology investment arm of the global reinsurance company, has closed a $500 million capital raise for a new Munich Re Fund II and now looks to broaden its approach to investing in the most innovative start-ups transforming the future of risk.

For our latest Artemis Live video interview, we were joined by Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS to discuss the subject of cyber risk and ask the question, why isn’t it a bigger exposure in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market?

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited looks to bring third-party reinsurance capital to every transaction, and as the re/insurer’s capabilities here continue to evolve, insurance-linked securities (ILS) capacity has become central to its thinking, according to Christian Dunleavy.

Plenum Investments AG, the Zurich based specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond investment manager, has announced a partnership with the Winterthur AWI pension fund investment group that will see it manage a subordinated insurance debt strategy.

Occam Underwriting, a specialist lines focussed Managing General Agency (MGA), is acquiring terrorism risk focused MGA Beech Underwriting Agencies Ltd., in a move supported by Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM).

There’s a lot of talk in the industry about the potential for important rating agency capital charges associated with property catastrophe risks to be updated soon, to account for what some are now viewing as a changed, or different, loss environment.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds may play a bigger role in providing aggregate reinsurance and retrocession protection in future, as an increasing number of traditional reinsurers are shying away from this, analysts at KBW believe.

A survey of institutional investors by Eaton Partners found that almost two-thirds intend to increase their allocations to alternative asset classes and private capital markets, with 9% of respondents targeting non-correlated assets specifically, while ESG is also seen as an important factor for future investment flows.