Alternative reinsurance capital

A new study by Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has highlighted how insurance-linked securities (ILS) and various alternative risk transfer solutions are key for mobilising risk capital for the energy transition.

Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has reached another high point in terms of its cat bond and ILS assets under management, surpassing the $11 billion milestone recently, Artemis can report.

While ample traditional reinsurance capacity is keeping the cyber ILS market limited for now, the underlying risk modeling and investor confidence in the asset class continues to grow. According to a new report from rating agency S&P, these evolving capabilities are laying the groundwork for alternative capital, which could play a much larger role should […]

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With capacity constraints likely to limit the insurance industry’s ability to fully insure hyperscale data centre projects, given their scale and complexity, a new report from S&P notes that this will drive greater use of self-insurance through captive insurers, and potentially, alternative capital such as insurance-linked securities (ILS).

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands-based reinsurance company, along with its subsidiary SurancePlus, has successfully closed five private placements of tokenized reinsurance securities on Solana blockchain, with total gross proceeds of combined offerings amounting to approximately $7.1 million.

Swiss Re has said that while the non-life insurance and reinsurance market has entered a softer phase of the underwriting cycle, it does not anticipate the depth of the downturn being as significant as we’ve seen in the past.

With the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) now having launched its awaited consultation on a Protect Cell Company (PCC) structure that will be suited to efficient insurance-linked securities issuance, collateralised reinsurance and sidecars, Regional Director George Ong of Aon has highlighted the opportunity this presents.

Today we have added four more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website, our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.

An awaited consultation process on the regulatory framework for a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that can be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements, including sidecars, and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance has now been launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).