Insurance Linked Investments

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.

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.