Insurance Linked Investments

A new study by specialist manager of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, Plenum Investments, has revealed that a lower expected loss of a portfolio should not always be considered a key indicator of a fund’s level of risk, in comparison to other funds.

LGT Capital Partners believes that 2025 should see continued growth of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class, as well as attractive allocation opportunities, against a backdrop of rising demand for protection across the insurance and reinsurance industry.

With just a few weeks left to register for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, Artemis ILS NYC 2025 is being held in New York on February 7th, here’s a look at who you can meet on the day. Register here to ensure you can join us at the event.

According to a new report authored by Tom Johansmeyer, Global Head of Index Classes, at broker Price Forbes Re, several forms of reinsurance could help support longer-term cyber re/insurance market growth, however, new sources of capital will have to form, along with participation from the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market.

Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, reached a new milestone in terms of cat bond and ILS assets under management at the end of 2024, surpassing the $10 billion level for the first time.

With the consultation on reforms to the UK’s insurance special purpose vehicle (ISPV) regulatory regime underway, Sam Woods, the CEO of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has highlighted this as a priority for driving competitiveness and growth.

On Friday some catastrophe bonds saw further negative secondary market price movements due to potential exposure to aggregate attachment erosion, or actual losses, from the Los Angeles and Southern California wildfires. Here we detail the latest information we have on names that experienced the most meaningful moves in the last week.

A definitive prospectus has now been filed with the SEC for the Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF, a new exchange traded fund strategy that will be predominantly focused on the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class.

The Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance market has reported that its London Bridge risk transformation and insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform has now seen $1.92 billion of capital deployed through its cells, with $2.55 billion of capital committed.

Once again, Bermuda has shown its dominant position as a home to structures used for catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) arrangements in 2024, with companies set up for this purpose dominating registrations of new insurance and reinsurance entities in Bermuda last year.