Insurance Linked Investments

Siena Capital Group, LLC, a private investment office with a focus on special situations and that counts former Gallagher Securities trading and distribution specialist Jack Stone as a Partner, is targeting the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market with a plan to launch a daily pricing platform later this year.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, is set to liquidate the Post-Event Reinsurance Fund that it originally launched back in 2015, Artemis has learned from company filings.

European insurers accelerated their use of subordinated debt markets in the first quarter of 2025, with issuance volumes hitting their highest Q1 level in 14 years, according to specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Twelve Securis.

Vantage Risk, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has appointed Steve Fales as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations within its partner capital business, effective immediately.

Calidris Investment Partners has been launched as a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance opportunities focused investment start-up by former Ontario Teachers’ insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist Philippe Trahan and former Blackstone insurance transaction specialist Daniel Miller.

Hannover Re is anticipating a roughly EUR 230 million recovery from its retrocessional reinsurance to support its losses from the Los Angeles wildfires, with the majority of that expected to come from the proportional K-Cessions quota share sidecar, Sven Althoff, Member of the Executive Board for Property & Casualty (P&C) said this morning.

Hannover Re has reported going “significantly” above its large loss budget for the first-quarter of 2025 with the California wildfires the main driver at a cost of EUR 631 million, saying that it shared EUR 438 million of its large natural catastrophe losses with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources during the period.

This video features an expert panel discussing the opportunity for investors in the growing casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) space at our Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference, which was held in New York on February 7th 2025.

At the Insurance & Reinsurance Legacy Association (IRLA) annual Congress event held in Brighton today, speakers highlighted the opportunity to innovate alongside the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and sources of alternative capital, to provide solutions to aid in exit liquidity and support casualty ILS transactions.

We’ve published this article as an earlier piece on UCITS catastrophe bond fund performance was incorrect, there was an error in the data we received. Based on new data, the average return of UCITS cat bond funds tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices was flat at the first pricing in May, but […]