Insurance linked securities investment manager news

Nephila Capital’s specialty lines focused Syndicate 2358 at Lloyd’s delivered a $35.6 million profit for the 2025 underwriting year, as its gross premiums written soared by 129% to reach over $508.6 million for the period.

Nephila Capital’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 2357, which is the flagship syndicate run by the dedicated investment manager focused on the insurance-linked securities (ILS), weather and catastrophe reinsurance space, reported a meaningful increase in profits for 2025, while it utilised legacy reinsurance deals to close out risks from prior underwriting years.

The launch of Hiscox Capital Partners, which brings together under a single structure all the capital partnership activity that Hiscox Re has managed for nearly two decades, represents a natural evolution for Hiscox, as it allows the firm to go to market with a broader, more coherent proposition that meets capital partners where they are, […]

Our latest video features the opening panel discussion of the day at Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the private insurance-linked securities marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.

Elementum Advisors, LLC, an alternative investment manager that specialises in collateralized natural catastrophe event reinsurance investments, has announced the promotion of employee Valerie Medelyan to the position of Chief Compliance Officer.

As the catastrophe bond market continues to expand into new perils and more complex structures, broad and credible modelling coverage becomes highly important. However, reinsurer Swiss Re’s proprietary catastrophe models allow the firm to analyse a wider range of risks, which according to executives expands the “investable universe” while maintaining a well-understood risk-return profile.

Nephila Capital contributed an impressive $159.2 million in fund management revenues to its parent Markel in 2025, with the figure having risen 68% over the prior year and Tom Gayner, Markel CEO, said the ILS unit “delivered” for its investors as well.

Elementum Advisors, LLC, an alternative investment manager that specialises in collateralized natural catastrophe reinsurance, entered 2026 with its assets under management increased to $3.8 billion, despite stakeholder White Mountains having reduced its investment in the Elementum ILS funds again.

Third-party investor capital under management in RenaissanceRe Capital Partners range of reinsurance joint-ventures and insurance-linked securities strategies reached a new all-time high of just over $9 billion at the end of 2025, before dropping slightly as 2026 began and the manager returned profits to some investors.

Everest Group, the global insurance and reinsurance specialist, benefited from a $35 million dividend payment from its Mt. Logan Re Ltd., third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure in 2025, while also earning $7 million of income from its investment into specific Mt. Logan Re cells.