For the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to expand beyond its current size, investors must be willing to partner more closely with cedents and provide solutions that address the full spectrum of their needs, rather than focusing narrowly on a single line of business, Shiv Kumar, President of GC Securities told us in an interview.
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Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has made Charles Mixon the new Head of Business Development for all insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital raising activities under the Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division, filling a gap left by the recent departure of Edward Johnson, Artemis has learned.
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The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published an Introduction to Insurance Investing, a concise, practitioner-focused guide to Insurance-Linked Strategies (ILS), designed to demystify the asset class while promoting transparency and informed decision-making across the institutional investment landscape.
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According to equity analysts at investment bank and financial services specialist TD Cowen, companies in the London insurance and reinsurance market still consider ILS and alternative capital as largely peripheral, believing that it is traditional capital that drives most price pressure in the sector.
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Asia is expected to see a steady and continuing increase in insurance-linked securities (ILS) activity, with regionally tailored catastrophe bonds likely to become more of a feature, as heightened climate awareness drives a need for risk transfer and reinsurance, Fitch Ratings has said.
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As discussions begin regarding the upcoming January reinsurance renewals, the question of how disciplined ILS managers will remain on contract structures looms, with Cahal Doris, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Private ILS, at Twelve Securis suggesting that ILS managers would be wrong to give away structural improvements at 1/1.
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Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, has said that two tranches of tokenized reinsurance securities that fund its collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle for 2025 remain on-track to deliver attractive returns. But the prior year vintage of the tokens appears to have been impacted by losses due to hurricane Milton.
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According to a new report released by Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of the privately held independent insurance broker, the capital markets are a critical aspect for the continued growth of the cyber reinsurance market.
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Based on our extensive data on the catastrophe bond market it’s clear another record is coming into view. We have already tracked and listed 95 individual catastrophe bond issuances in the Artemis Deal Directory so far in 2025, which equals the full-year record set for number of deals issued and tracked by us in 2023.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has now finalised its insurance industry loss estimate for the severe flooding experienced across parts of Central Europe and Italy in September 2024 due to storm Boris, lowering the total by almost 2% to €2.153 billion.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 21st 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.
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As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, Howden Capital Markets & Advisory (HCMA) expects to see a continuation of growth in the catastrophe bond space, alongside continued opportunities in property catastrophe-focused sidecars and growing interest in casualty sidecars, Mitchell Rosenberg, Global Co-Head of ILS told Artemis in an interview.
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Over time, capital market investors are expected to play an important role as a key element in ensuring there is sufficient cyber reinsurance and retrocession capacity, to support the expansion of cyber insurance limit around the globe, Moody’s Ratings has said.
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If the Atlantic wind season continues to be relatively benign for the global reinsurance market there is a chance property catastrophe rate declines at 1/1 2026 may reach into the 15% to 20% range, analysts at Citizens JMP Securities have said. But even then, given the high-level that rates are softening from, the situation is […]
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