Casualty insurance-linked securities news

Insurance holding company Ambac Financial Group, Inc. saw its Cirratta insurance distribution division enter 2025 with more than $1.5 billion of third-party capacity, sourced from a range of reinsurance market participants and third-party investors.

In an interview with Artemis around the Bermuda Risk Summit 2025, Kier James, Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO) of MultiStrat, discussed how the company believes that the island will continue to maintain its dominance of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market as it broadens beyond catastrophe-focused ILS into casualty and specialty lines of business.

AXIS Capital, the specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has registered a fourth collateralized insurer class of company in Bermuda to support further expansion of its Monarch Point Re casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform in 2025.

MultiStrat, the specialist underwriter, reinsurance investment facilitator and casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) company, has announced that it has appointed Maryam Abdullah as Head of Pricing, to support the company’s growth plans for 2025.

According to broking group Howden, inflows are accelerating in ILS arrangements for casualty, managing general agents (MGAs), cyber insurance-linked securities (cyber ILS) and reinsurance sidecars, as capacity providers look to grow existing premium pools.

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, reported a significant 39% increase in fee income generated from its work with third-party investors for full-year 2024.

According to Thad Hall, Partner and Head of insurance-linked securities (ILS) Solutions at Augment Risk, the risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm, the ongoing growth trend with alternative capital is expected to continue throughout 2025, given the high returns for ILS relative to other assets.

Northern Reinsurance SPC, Ltd. (Northern Re), a collateralized reinsurance company with a focus on providing investors access to the returns of its long-tail casualty underwriting business, has announced the hiring of former Munich Re executive Amin Touahri as it looks to advance its casualty ILS strategy.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, had another strong year for its reinsurance investment strategies and ventures in 2024, which CEO Ross Stevens describes in his latest investor letter while also explaining some of what makes the firm so interesting.

Investor optimism remains strong for catastrophe bonds and reinsurance sidecars, but when it comes to collateralized reinsurance that optimism still lags, but institutional investors are positively working to address issues that have made allocating fresh capital more of a challenge in private ILS and collateralized reinsurance, according to Artex.