Insurance Linked Investments

HP Reinsurance SPC Ltd. (HP Re), a Cayman Islands based reinsurer established by North Carolina investment adviser Hale Partnership Capital Management, has entered into a transaction with ILS manager Elementum Advisors that saw HP Re assuming a portfolio of business written between 2020 and 2022.

By the end of September this year, the amount of alternative capital in the reinsurance industry had increased by 5% over the nine-months of 2024, to reach another new high of $113 billion, helped by retained earnings and catastrophe bond market inflows, broker Aon has said.

Among the hedge fund investment sectors set to benefit from rising institutional investor interest in 2025, Agecroft Partners believes that reinsurance focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies are “poised to attract substantial capital inflows in 2025.”

Having begun its Eden Re II Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar placements with the largest Class A tranche of notes since 2019, global reinsurer Munich Re has now added the usual Class B issuance, but this tranche has been placed at just $85.5 million, which is the smallest size for that layer since right back in […]

Catastrophe bond fund strategies in the UCITS format have averaged a 13.62% return for full-year 2024, according to the latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

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Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, grew the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management in its range of mutual reinsurance fund strategies to more than $5 billion in the last quarter of record.

Competitive pricing for industry-loss warranty (ILW) protection has driven “considerable interest from a growing demographic of buyers” at the January 1st 2025 reinsurance renewals, according to broker Howden Re.

Last year, catastrophe data aggregator and industry loss estimate provider PERILS revealed an extension to its services, with a new methodology that combines its standard data methodology with that of CRESTA CLIX, which the firm’s CEO Christoph Oehy has said will simplify the process for risk transfer use-cases including catastrophe bonds and ILW’s.

The catastrophe bond market delivered the second-highest total-return in its history in 2024, reaching 17.29% for the full-year, according to data from the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices.