ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

During a recent interview with Artemis, Kier James, Chief Underwriting Officer of MultiStrat, discussed the firm’s recent growth across the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, while also highlighting how retro market conditions have become more favourable for buyers throughout recent months.

The Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF will list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) tomorrow April 1st under the ticker symbol ILS, making the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment opportunity more accessible to a broader range of investors.

The ILS Advisers Fund Index has reported a +0.17% return for February 2025, but the company has highlighted a second consecutive month where there was a broad dispersion between ILS fund returns and performance, as effects from losses due to the California wildfires continued to flow through the market.

As the cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, analysts at S&P Global Ratings have identified key factors influencing cyber ILS credit quality, including regulatory risks, policy terms, cedent risk, asset collateral, and modelling challenges.

The Icosa Cat Bond Fund, the catastrophe bond fund strategy distributed by Icosa Investments, has continued to attract new inflows from investors in recent months, now growing the fund to US $428 million in assets as of this week.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) continue to stand out as a compelling asset class, not just for their strong returns, but for their unique ability to remain uncorrelated with broader financial markets, according to Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director, ILS, at Schroders Capital.

The catastrophe bond market is not ready for an exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks an index, according to specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Solidum Partners AG, who say it’s not feasible at this time for such a strategy to exist, given challenges in dynamic replication of an index for the cat bond […]

The Ambassador US mutual catastrophe bond fund strategy operated by advisor Embassy Asset Management has now expanded its insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund’s assets under management to $428 million, with expansion across the portfolio and more industry-loss warranty (ILW) investments made as well.

RenaissanceRe, the Bermuda headquartered global reinsurer and third-party reinsurance capital manager, has built a “deep and persistent moat” around its fee income business, CEO Kevin O’Donnell believes, saying that demand from investors for access to its Capital Partners strategies is often greater than it can satisfy.

Nephila Capital’s specialty lines focused Syndicate 2358 at Lloyd’s continued to expand its operations in 2024, underwriting an impressive 84% more in gross premiums over the year, although its results were hit by losses due to the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.