ILS funds news, insurance linked securities or ILS fund news

The Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index is set to achieve a record high annual return in 2023, as a strong showing in October has taken the average return of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds it tracks to 12.28% for the first ten months of this year.

LGT ILS Partners, the specialist dedicated insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment unit of the private bank and asset manager LGT Capital Partners, is confident that market conditions are going to remain attractive into 2024, even expecting some marginal price increases in certain areas of the reinsurance renewals.

The Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division of global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has seen continued success in fundraising in recent months, with third-party capital under management rising to $3.3 billion over the course of the third-quarter.

According to Joe Tolen, Investment Director in the Credit Investment Group at Cambridge Associates, one of the crucial elements of insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager selection is the ability to “identify managers with appropriate capital reserving techniques, necessary in the immediate aftermath of large catastrophic events.”

This video features the first keynote speech and Q&A of the day at our Artemis London 2023 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

White Mountains has marked-up the valuation of its stake in insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment fund manager and collateralised reinsurance underwriter Elementum Advisors, LLC, even though the proportion of the ILS manager that it owns had been reduced.

SCOR Investment Partners, the asset management arm of the French reinsurance group and a manager of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has announced a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) appointment, with long-standing executive Louis Bourrousse taking over the top-position.

We’ve learned that the hurricane Ian side pocket investment situation has improved considerably for some insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers, with a number of key exposures now failing to reach the levels of cedent loss needed to attach coverage in recent weeks.

Aspen Capital Markets, the third-party and alternative reinsurance capital management unit of global re/insurer Aspen, has raised new funds for its third-party capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicles, taking total assets under management to $1.5 billion at the end of September 2023.

Plenum Investments AG, the Zurich based specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond investment manager, has grown the assets under management of its mixed catastrophe bond and subordinated insurance debt ILS investment fund to over US $400 million.