ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

Efficiently structured insurance-linked securities (ILS) transactions are playing a pivotal role in reducing capital costs for re/insurers, according to risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm Augment Risk.

Lumen Re, the main Bermuda-domiciled rated reinsurance underwriting vehicle of specialist insurance-linked securities manager LGT ILS Partners, has renewed its status as a reciprocal jurisdiction reinsurer in 37 US states for 2025, while also seeing its loss ratio remaining lower in 2024, according to its latest rating affirmation by AM Best.

Nectaris Re Ltd., the Class 3A Bermuda-based rated reinsurance platform backed by specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP, has reported solid underwriting results again for 2024, according the latest rating affirmation from AM Best.

You can now register to attend our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2025. We return to London on September 2nd, for another full-day of in-depth discussion and debate about the ILS market, as well as valuable networking. Register to attend here.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, is set to liquidate the Post-Event Reinsurance Fund that it originally launched back in 2015, Artemis has learned from company filings.

We’ve published this article as an earlier piece on UCITS catastrophe bond fund performance was incorrect, there was an error in the data we received. Based on new data, the average return of UCITS cat bond funds tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices was flat at the first pricing in May, but […]

Robust catastrophe bond issuance in the first and now second quarter of 2025 seems to have taken some of the excess cash out of the market, leading to a little more firmness in pricing of late, K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton has noted.

AXA Group reported that gross written premiums grew by 12% for its AXA XL Reinsurance division during the first-quarter of the year, but the firm’s CFO Alban de Mailly Nesle explained that the majority of that was ceded to insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies.

Everest Group reported a 95% jump in ceded property catastrophe written premiums to cells of its Mt. Logan Re Ltd. third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure in the first-quarter of 2025, as more excess-of-loss business was shared with the investors backing the Mt. Logan Capital Management strategies.

In an announcement today GAM Investments (GAM) and Fermat Capital Management (Fermat) said that they have reached a mutual agreement that will see Fermat becoming the sole manager of the offshore GAM FCM Cat Bond Fund, with GAM to have no ongoing involvement in the strategy.