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We’ve now published the full video of our recent ILS Market Outlook 2025 live webinar, that was held on October 31st 2024, featuring insurance-linked security (ILS) industry experts who joined us to discuss the state of the catastrophe bond and ILS market and provide their outlook for the next year.

Ceres, a non-profit that leads a national coalition of investors, environmental organisations and other public interest groups working to address global sustainability challenges, has highlighted parametric risk transfer, catastrophe bonds and ILS as innovative tools to address increasing climate risks and build a more resilient and sustainable insurance sector.

China’s National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), the financial industry regulatory agency under the State Council of the People’s Republic, is continuing to promote Hong Kong as a venue for insurers and reinsurers to sponsor catastrophe bonds.

Today, we are delighted to announce the first wave of expert speakers for our upcoming ILS NYC 2025 conference. With over 150 people already registered to attend, Early Bird tickets are selling fast. Register soon to secure your place at the event.

Oxbridge Re Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, is planning to expand its offering of tokenized reinsurance securities that fund its collateralized reinsurance sidecar vehicle Oxbridge Re NS, with the launch of a second tranche of notes that appear set to have a lower risk-return profile.

During the full-year 2023, the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) team at private markets focused investment manager Schroders Capital allocated over US $817 million to transactions that specifically help in reducing the insurance protection gap.

Here’s a final reminder to register for our Artemis Live webinar, being held this week on November 21st 2024, in which industry expert speakers will explore the use of alternative capital sources by originators of insurance risk, such as managing general agents (MGA’s).

International insurer and reinsurer MS Amlin has now launched the capital raise for the 2025 edition of its Phoenix reinsurance sidecar, and with the vehicle’s performance consistently beating expectations, investor interest is high, according to William Ho, CEO of MS Amlin Asia Pacific.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is looking at another relatively significant increase in its reinsurance purchase next year, as it projects it may need almost $5.8 billion of reinsurance and catastrophe bond limit, due to the near-erosion of its CRTF by hurricane Beryl and a still-rising PML.

Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party and alternative reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, continued to increase its assets under management in the third-quarter of 2024, surpassing $2 billion for the first time, reflecting growth of 38% in the last year.