ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

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Third-party investor capital under management at Bermudian global reinsurer RenaissanceRe’s Capital Partners division rose by roughly $770 million in the year to March 31st 2025, taking the total to a new high of $7.94 billion.

Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, generated half of the fee income earned in calendar year 2024 from managing casualty insurance and reinsurance opportunities for its investors.

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.