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Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (HSCM), undertaking its reinsurance investment business through the HSCM Bermuda unit, has raised $110 million to launch a new fund named HS Sawmill LP, that has been formed to acquire a seasoned portfolio of life insurance-linked securities (ILS).

This video features the opening keynote of the day at Artemis London 2025, a speech by Nylesh Shah of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), from our fourth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City of London, UK, held on September 2nd 2025.

In a recent commentary authored by Schroders Capital’s Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director ILS, and Christoph Hummel, Head of Analytics, ILS, both make the case for enhancing the trusted vendor models that underpin the catastrophe bond market with in-house expertise.

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published an Introduction to Insurance Investing, a concise, practitioner-focused guide to Insurance-Linked Strategies (ILS), designed to demystify the asset class while promoting transparency and informed decision-making across the institutional investment landscape.

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager, has announced the hire of a new Reserving Actuary, with Jammy Chow joining the company from his most recent position working for Swiss Re Canada.

In the wake of its announcement that Swiss Re is bringing together its insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment management operations under the Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC) brand, Artemis spoke with senior executives from the Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division of the reinsurance company.

The reinsurance market continues to provide attractive conditions for underwriting and Chris Parry, the Global Head of Capital Partners at RenaissanceRe told us the company expects this to provide ongoing opportunities for ILS investors, which will help the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector to keep growing.

Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re is bringing together its insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment management operations under the Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC) brand and the combined ILS management unit will be led by long-standing executive Mariagiovanna Guatteri.

AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has added a new portfolio manager to its insurance-linked securities investment team, with Jeevan Singh Upaul joining the company from his most recent role at re/insurer MS Amlin.

For institutional investors and allocators, when it comes to selecting an insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager the decision needs to be based on more than just performance, with a range of factors also critical to consider, according to Lorenzo Volpi, Deputy CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners.