ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

For Bermuda based reinsurance company and third-party capital manager RenaissanceRe, the fee income earned from its joint-venture and insurance-linked securities (ILS) operations has become a significant contributor to earnings and the second-quarter is expected to see these fees rise by around 23% year-on-year, its leadership said today.

Arch Capital has recognised higher contingent commissions thanks to the performance of property catastrophe reinsurance business written for third-party capital providers, according to the firm’s CFO Francois Morin.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda based reinsurance and third-party capital management specialist, raised almost $566 million of third-party capital in the first-quarter of 2024, to further expand its range of ILS funds and reinsurance joint-venture vehicles, while the fee income earned by this business soared 87% in the quarter.

Today we are delighted to announce the first wave of speakers for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, ILS Asia 2024, which takes place on July 11th at the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore.

Having reached $1.7 billion in assets under management at the beginning of this year, Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party and alternative reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, earned 10% more in fee income through the first-quarter of 2024.

The global hedge fund industry had a strong first-quarter to 2024, adding significant assets under management and delivering strong returns across many strategies. But, when it comes to investment strategies that can be truly diversifying, versus broader economic and capital market trends, catastrophe bonds and ILS were perhaps the best.

Plenum Investments, the Zurich-headquartered manager of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related assets, has renamed its longest-standing catastrophe bond fund strategy, adding the word “defensive” to reflect its strategy to reduce tail risk exposure, becoming the Plenum CAT Bond Defensive Fund.

K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton, believes that the forward-looking total yield potential of insurance-linked securities (ILS) remains attractive despite recent spread tightening, leading the manager to keep catastrophe bonds as its top sub-sector pick.

The net asset value of the two share classes of the CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund rose by over 61% across the course of 2023, as the investment manager Markel CATCo continued to unlock more value from the fund’s run-off for its investors.

The total-return of the outstanding catastrophe bond market for the first-quarter of 2024 has reached 4.57%, according to data from the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, which shows that cat bond market performance is running slightly behind the prior year.