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Allocations to reinsurance grew fastest among direct institutional investors in 2025, outpacing the growth rate of assets deployed at independent insurance-linked securities managers and reinsurer sponsored managers, according to recent data from broker Marsh Re.

Insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe bonds are seen as a complementary mechanism to help provide the necessary capital to transfer and fund the risks of large infrastructure projects in Asia, according to Lim Cheng Khai of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

As cyber, data centres and artificial intelligence (AI) generate new material cumulations of risk, matching ILS capital to these emerging exposures requires the right fund structures to unlock investor capacity without compromising core portfolio value, Leadenhall Capital Partners CEO Luca Albertini highlighted to Artemis.

Institutional capital has matured into a structural component of global reinsurance infrastructure, accounting for nearly a fifth of total global reinsurance capital market capacity in the first-half of 2026 as the traditional underwriting value chain continues to unbundle, according to broker Aon.

Hong Kong’s new five-year plan highlights insurance-linked securities business and the ongoing development of its ILS regulatory regime as key strategic goals, with a PCC structure being explored for more cost-efficient ILS and catastrophe bond issuance, as well as ways to invigorate the investor side as well.

The global data centre build-out is creating unprecedented risk concentrations in natural disaster zones, and pushing traditional insurance capacity to its limits. Howden sees this as a prime opportunity for the capital markets, as catastrophe peak risk remains the foundations of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class.

Arch Re, the global reinsurance arm of Arch Capital group, has promoted Christian Roberts as its new Head of ILS and hired Cyril Neyme as an ILS Portfolio Manager, with both of these moves happening in July this year.

A recent report authored by wealth managers at US Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, has outlined key opportunities for qualified investors in the reinsurance market, with the firm particularly highlighting how reinsurance offers effective diversification with total return potential, making a strong case for its inclusion alongside traditional assets due to […]

The connectivity between risks in an increasingly complex world means their consequences can be amplified. As the insurance and reinsurance industry work to understand emerging risks, there’s a need to build the conviction and confidence of all stakeholders including capital providers, so risks can be effectively transferred, according to Moody’s CEO Rob Fauber.

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.