Following several years of strong returns and renewed inflows, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market currently sits in a structurally healthy position, however this recent momentum must be balanced with disciplined cycle management, Florian Steiger, CEO and Founder of Icosa Investments told Artemis in an interview.
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Peak Reinsurance Company (Peak Re), a global reinsurer headquartered in Hong Kong, has plans to “reignite” its third-party capital management business in 2027, seeing itself as having a differentiated offering for investors and wanting to become more sophisticated in the space, Chief Underwriting Officer Philip Hough told Artemis.
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The insurance and reinsurance industry has an opportunity to harness the appetite of global investors to support growth and help find the capacity to make more risks insurable, because “there is a massive amount of capital that’s looking to enter our industry,” according to Kelly Superczynski, Head of Global Capital Advisory at Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions.
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Mat Storr, Head of Reinsurance at underwriter Antares Global believes that the market is heading for an “orderly renewal” and he does not foresee any return to “indiscriminate soft-market behaviour” even though capital is abundant.
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Today’s abundant reinsurance and insurance-linked securities capital levels presents the sector with a window of opportunity to diversify its capital stack and secure longer-duration solutions, before the market inevitably shifts again, Jarad Madea, CEO of Howden Capital Markets & Advisory told us in an interview.
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Mt. Logan Capital Management, Ltd. (MLCM), the Everest Group owned and operated third-party capital management platform, has been expanding and diversifying its offering. CEO John Modin explained to us in an interview that the focus remains on ensuring alignment and delivering capital efficiency.
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Cedar Trace ILS, the Bermuda-based specialist insurance-linked securities arm of Cedar Trace Capital Management Group and closely linked to Mereo Insurance, has announced a range of leadership promotions and a strategic hire, which includes Fergus Reynolds being promoted to CEO.
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Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re said that natural catastrophe risk pricing remains “technically risk adequate” but notes an expectation that pricing will likely continue to soften at renewals in 2027. However, attractive opportunities continue to be seen and the company said it “is prepared to make additional capacity available.”
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At the S&P Global Ratings briefing in Monte Carlo at the RVS, Maren Josefs, Credit Analyst at the company explained that the big stories in insurance-linked securities has been catastrophe bonds and casualty sidecars this year, but she cautioned the market to remember that investors still don’t like surprises.
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Speaking today at Swiss Re’s briefing at RVS 2026 in Monte Carlo, Urs Baertschi, Chief Executive Officer, of P&C Reinsurance, underscored the importance of the reinsurers third-party capital markets focused Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division, and stated that Swiss Re expects to continue to be a “meaningful participant in that market.”
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As the ILS market expands its reach across casualty, specialty, and cyber, maintaining price adequacy remains a critical boundary for market growth. Speaking with Artemis at the 2026 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous, Kathleen Faries, CEO of Artex Capital Solutions, outlined her expectations for emerging perils and evolving deal structures heading towards 2027, emphasising that rates must […]
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Swiss Re is seeing broader and more engaged interest in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities from institutional investors, with this increasing even faster than the substantial issuance growth seen in recent years, according to Mariagiovanna Guatteri, CIO, Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies Inc.
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Catastrophe bond fund structured in the UCITS investment format delivered their strongest month of performance year-to-date through the August days of record, averaging 1.24% for the period, while the 12-month rolling return average across the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices slipped a little further to 9.82%.
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While broader insurance and reinsurance market dynamics mean we haven’t seen any 144A cyber catastrophe bonds in 2026 so far, there is no shortage of investor appetite for cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS), and industry-loss warranty (ILW) transactions are still being seen, according to Brittany Baker, VP of Solution Consulting, CyberCube.
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