ILW news

Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, the hedge fund-focused arm of the global asset manager, has moderated its stance on the catastrophe bonds asset class slightly from ‘strongly overweight’ to ‘overweight’ for Q4 2026, which in turn has led the firm to shift its stance on the insurance-linked securities market to ‘neutral’.

Primary catastrophe bond market activity is set for a strong final quarter in 2026, driven by expectations for a strong pipeline and how the lower spread environment may encourage more sponsors to enter the market, according to Sidney Rostan, Head of ILS Strategies at SCOR Investment Partners.

Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform has partnered with Reask, the catastrophe modelling and climate analytics specialist, which will see Reask supply settlement data for its live hurricane contracts, enabling capital providers to enter and exit live catastrophe exposure in real time.

The Ambassador US mutual fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management, that allocates its capital to catastrophe bonds and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) that we believe to be largely ILW’s, has reached a new milestone with its net assets under management practically at $1 billion.

Members Capital Management Limited (MembersCap) executives told us the company has recently launched its first catastrophe bond fund strategy to expand its offering to clients, while also disclosing that it was the investor behind a recent innovative industry-loss warranty (ILW) transaction.

Verisk, a data analytics and technology provider to the global insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry, has announced the promotion of Harry White to lead its Property Claim Services (PCS) unit.

Reinsurance broker Lockton Re has successfully executed what the firm believes is the first industry-loss warranty (ILW) that combines property catastrophe and cyber risk triggers within a single limit structure for a protection buying client.

Demand for industry-loss warranty (ILW) protection saw progressive momentum throughout Q2 2026, culminating in a peak during the mid-year reinsurance renewals. At the same time, after a record opening half to the year, catastrophe bond activity is expected to be very active in Q4, a new commentary from SCOR Investment Partners has highlighted.

The Ambassador US mutual fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management that allocates to catastrophe bonds and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) that we believe to be largely ILW’s, has grown its assets under management further to reach almost $900 million as of this week.

Gallagher Re’s new Arthur Re Ltd. platform adds another dimension to the reinsurance broker’s global retrocession offering, and according to Jason Bolding, Global CEO of Gallagher Securities, the platform allows the firm to bring clients more flexible capital solutions while streamlining the issuance process for index-based catastrophe bonds.