Insurance Linked Investments

Montauk Point has been launched in Bermuda by well-known reinsurance industry executive Adam Szakmary to provide independent advisory services to third-party risk capital providers.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused solution provider Jireh Risk Advisors Ltd. has announced a partnership with independent insurance manager Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) in Bermuda, that will see the pair delivering ILS related services, including risk transformation through a newly launched SPI, Strata ILS Ltd.

Radix Insurance Linked Strategies (Radix ILS) has been founded by former Hamilton ILS executive Hanni Ali as a new Bermuda-based third-party capital manager and reinsurance capacity deployment company with a technology-first focus.

A renewed interest in catastrophe bonds is being seen across the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as spreads have started to become more “attractive”, which indicates a favourable market entry point for new sponsors, according to Sandro Kriesch, Head of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS), and Sophie Worsnop, Assistant Vice President, Acrisure Re Corporate Advisory & Solutions (ARCAS).

Securis Investment Partners, the London-headquartered specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has announced the hiring of Armand Foy to the role of Investor Relations (North America).

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investments portfolio of Dutch pension PFZW, which is managed by pension investment firm PGGM, delivered a 15.1% return for full-year 2024, while in asset terms the allocation was a little down year-on-year but flat through the fourth-quarter.

According to senior executives at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the fee income flowing to the company from its third-party capitalised Ruby Re life reinsurance sidecar is already meaningful and while a new transaction was ceded to the sidecar in Q3 last year, the structure still had around two-thirds of its capital and capacity left […]

There are only two weeks left until our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference. Artemis ILS NYC 2025 is being held in New York on February 7th. With space now running low, please register to ensure you can join us at the event.

Steel City Re is the world’s only provider of parametric reputation insurance offerings, leveraging a reputational value index that delivers more stable and higher returns for reinsurers and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors, according to co-founder and CEO Nir Kossovsky.

With the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market expected to continue growing by analysts at investment bank Jefferies, they say that this will necessitate a continued expansion further into new and secondary perils, to offer broader risk management for re/insurers and an increasingly diversified investment choice for allocators.