Insurance Linked Investments

Aspen has launched an initial public offering (IPO) of shares, seeking to raise as much as $392 million which could value the firm at almost $2.9 billion. In the disclosures made, Aspen revealed its third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital management unit Aspen Capital Markets (ACM) saw a significant rise in fee income in Q1 […]

Northern Re, the collateralized reinsurance company that provides investors with access to the returns of its long-tail casualty underwriting business, has announced raising an additional $100 million from existing and new institutional investor partners.

Hiscox ILS, the dedicated ILS investment management arm of the global insurance and reinsurance group, has hired Jack Ellison, formerly of Walkers, as its new Head of Legal.

In an increasingly volatile and uncertain financial world where the investment landscape has been exposed to unpredictable shocks, pension funds have been among the most affected by equity market declines and this is expected to further heighten the desire to diversify their asset portfolios.

The team behind the Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS) says its strategy is built on deep diversification and a long-term aim to outperform the broader catastrophe bond market on a risk-adjusted basis.

Catastrophe bonds are increasingly gaining ground with institutional investors and provide a compelling source of diversification and income at this time, according to Martin Rea, Senior Consultant at JANA Investment Advisers Pty Limited.

As the catastrophe bond market continues to evolve, the inclusion of non-natural catastrophe risks like terrorism could become increasingly appealing to insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors seeking to optimise their portfolios, according to Man Group.

This video features an expert panel discussing finding balance for sponsors and investors in the catastrophe bond segment of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at our Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference, which was held in New York on February 7th 2025.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurance company and third-party capital manager, has raised almost $462 million in new third-party capital across its range of joint-ventures and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds in the first-quarter of 2025, but the California wildfires saw losses shared with investors and dented the firms fee income for the period.

For full-year 2024, AXIS Capital ceded $323 million of prospective reinsurance premiums to its Monarch Point Re casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform, which was an increase of 13% over the prior year. In addition AXIS earned an increased level of fees and commissions from the ILS structure.