Insurance Linked Investments

Leadenhall Capital Partners, the London headquartered specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager, has hired experienced ILS fundraising executive Barthelemy Thomas as Director within its business development team, where he will report to Lorenzo Volpi, Managing Partner and Deputy CEO.

Twelve Capital, the Zurich-headquartered insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager, has launched its first parametric ILS fund, working with Lumyna Investments for infrastructure and distribution, and parametric specialist Descartes Underwriting alongside Generali’s Global Corporate & Commercial arm for origination.

According to Eric Andersen, President of broking giant, Aon, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to be a very “boutique business within reinsurance” for the firm, in terms of the scale of the traditional reinsurance treaties seen across the industry on property cat, liability and specialty.

According to Gallagher Re, reinsurers within the EMEA regions looked to obtain growth across Europe at the key 1/1 renewals, with many offering more capacity as they aimed to achieve their growth mandates which came almost exclusively from incumbent reinsurers, in part empowered with ILS-fueled new sidecar capacity. 

Private ILS funds outpaced pure catastrophe bond funds in the full-year performance of the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index, while the average return across all of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies tracked was 13.10% for 2024.

Since the very first deal came to market almost three decades ago, the cumulative value of catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) we’ve analysed and tracked has now surpassed $180 billion of issuance, according to our Artemis Deal Directory.

According to ratings agency AM Best, underlying insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital expanded throughout 2024 due to a large quantity of investors reinvesting their earnings across the market, which further expanded deployable ILS capacity.

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), custodian of the Alternative Investment Standards, has announced that it has published a new consultation paper (CP5), containing proposed new standards related to valuation of private market assets.

Ariel Re Capital Partners (ARCP), the third-party capital management platform established by global reinsurance company Ariel Re in 2024, has now completed its first capital raise and utilised the Lloyd’s ILS transformer London Bridge 2 to channel the funding to its business.

Lloyd’s of London CFO Burkhard Keese is to depart the market to focus on investment roles in the German insurance sector, but he is set to remain a strategic advisor with a focus on developing the risk transfer vehicle London Bridge 2.