Insurance Linked Investments

The target allocation range has been reduced for an investment into a Munich Re reinsurance sidecar that features in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolio managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager, on behalf of its end-client Dutch pension PFZW.

Switzerland based pension fund Nest Sammelstiftung, or the Nest Collective Foundation, saw catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as one of its best investment asset classes in performance terms in 2024, benefiting from over 20% across its cat bond and reinsurance allocations.

Institutional investors are searching for diversification, income generation and also defensiveness in their asset selection, as they strive to build resilient portfolios to suit a world defined by fragmentation and flux, a survey from asset manager Schroders explains.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has leaned more heavily on the catastrophe bond market for its 2025 risk transfer strategy, with CFO Jennifer Montero revealing that 70% of the insurer’s total risk transfer program, including both new and continuing coverage, is now backed by cat bonds.

Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) have become a foundational component of cedant and sponsor reinsurance towers in 2025, with the market now living up to the promise many believed it presented from the start, speakers in our Artemis Live webinar said yesterday.

For AIG its deeper partnership with asset manager Blackstone, which was established with the launch of a multi-year reinsurance sidecar-like syndicate last year, represents a way to optimise for the most efficient capital and an opportunity to generate sizeable fee income, according to Charlie Fry, EVP Reinsurance & Risk Capital Optimization.

The first-quarter 2025 results of global re/insurer Aspen drives home the importance of the growing fee income the company has been generating through its Aspen Capital Markets third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital management unit.

Siena Capital Group, LLC has announced that it has appointed Ridwan Bari as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), to spearhead technology strategy across the firm’s portfolio companies and lead the development of Caterina, the Group’s insurance-linked securities platform.

As investors grapple with the challenges of market concentration, rate uncertainty, and sustainability underperformance, insurance-linked securities (ILS) are emerging as a compelling solution for ESG-focused portfolios, according to Tiziana Maida, Head of Research at investment management, wealth planning and consulting specialist IPS Capital LLP.

Having increased the capital base of its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar structure and raised the proportional quota share for 2025, W. R. Berkley ceded a significant 82% more in reinsurance and retrocession premiums to the structure in the first-quarter of 2025.