Insurance Linked Investments

Markel, the global specialty insurer, has promoted Nikki-Lynn Marshall to the role of Head of insurance-linked securities (ILS), after just six months in her previous role with the firm.

Regulator and supervisor the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has now published its awaited advice to the European Commission (EC) on its review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD), in which it says its conceptual view is that some alternative assets such as catastrophe bonds may sit better under a different framework than […]

As global financial markets reacted to the recent and continuing U.S. tariff threats, as well as macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, catastrophe bonds once again proved their worth as a source of calm in the storm, according to Brookmont Capital Management, manager of the Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS).

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager, has announced a new research collaboration with Cornell University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, aimed at improving the modelling of hurricane tracks and assessing landfall risk with greater accuracy.

Across the entire roughly $4.49 billion reinsurance risk transfer tower of Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation the capital markets have taken their largest share proportionally in 2025, with around 87% of the total backed by catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance markets and ILS fund managers.

The Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC) team, the catastrophe bond focused investment management arm of the global reinsurance firm, spent the month of May cleaning less liquid and private transactions from the GAM Star Cat Bond Fund portfolio, Artemis can report.

Today we are announcing the first speakers for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2025. Join us in London on September 2nd for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend here.

While the reinsurance market and its pricing would be expected to re-firm after any large hurricane losses suffered during the 2025 season, it is not expected to drive a severe market hardening as was seen after 2022, according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.

In a recent commentary, Bernhard Allgäuer, Senior Investment Strategist at VP Bank, outlined why insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors “have reason to be optimistic” heading into the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, citing elevated risk premia and a favourable technical setup that could support returns.

Twelve Securis, the specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager, is not anticipating any impact to the World Bank catastrophe bond or any of the firm’s private ILS positions due to losses caused by major hurricane Erick in Mexico yesterday.