ESG investment in insurance-linked securities (ILS)

Interest in the relevance of insurance-linked securities (ILS) from an ESG standpoint continues to grow, but while there’s consensus that the market has a role to play, being viewed as positive is not enough, according to Vincent Prabis, Managing Principal at Hiscox ILS.

Re2 Capital has been launched by three well-known former employees of ILS manager Nephila Capital, with a mission to structure innovative climate risk transfer and financing solutions that can connect private investment capital and risk capacity to climate-linked opportunities.

At the reinsurance renewals earlier this year, insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager LGT ILS Partners did not want to walk away from clients seeking aggregate protection, instead taking steps to make aggregate deals work for the investment manager again.

As the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) publishes a new set of proposed rules on climate risk disclosure, it’s becoming increasingly clear regulating for climate risk reporting is going to drive risk management and risk transfer spend, with ramifications and opportunity for insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered reinsurance underwriting firm and third-party capital manager has appointed long-serving employee and former global property catastrophe head Cathal Carr to lead its climate and sustainability strategy.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector continues to mature and as it does so new opportunities are presenting themselves, which senior Partners from global law firm Mayer Brown believe could help to stimulate continued market growth in ILS.

The importance of environmental, social & governance (ESG) will grow for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and cascade through to the service provider level as well, according to HSBC executives we interviewed recently.

Hiscox ILS, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance underwriting unit of specialist underwriter Hiscox Group, had a successful renewals and now targets growth in 2022, with some additional assets raised for 1/1, Vincent Prabis explained in a recent video interview.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has long designed its risk transfer products and solutions using the insights gleaned from the outputs of catastrophe risk models, but in the future a “digital twin” could be a far more intuitive solution that can drive significant ILS innovation, we believe.

The influence of climate change on returns in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is uneven and ILS investment managers have access to the tools necessary to adapt to advancing climate risks, making it important that investors take a balanced-view, according to alternative asset advisors SIGLO Capital Advisors AG.