Industry loss warranty news

In a recent report, rating agency AM Best points to the potential for expansion of the collateralized reinsurance and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, not least as catastrophe bond risk-adjusted spreads tighten this year.

Speaking in Monte Carlo today at a S&P Global Ratings briefing during the annual reinsurance event, Maren Josefs, Credit Analyst at S&P Global, said it may be time to rethink the name alternative capital, as it was really always designed to complement the traditional reinsurance market and in recent years has become increasingly aligned and […]

Stefano Nicolini, a well-known specialist industry loss warranty (ILW) focused reinsurance broker, has joined Moody’s broker and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focus team as a Director of Sales, where he will be tasked with helping market participants utilise Moody’s catastrophe models and technology solutions.

Beazley’s Group Chief Underwriting Officer Paul Bantick explained this morning how the company has prepared itself to respond to the evolving cyber threat landscape, laying out the importance of its reinsurance and cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) protection, while also providing an insight into its exposure to recent events.

Appetite for cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) and industry loss warranties (ILWs) experienced consistent growth in the first half of 2025, although at a reduced rate than the previous year, while cyber retrocession gained momentum with buyer interest significantly rising during the same period too, according to reinsurance broker Lockton Re.

Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, the more hedge fund focused part of the global asset manager, has maintained its strongly overweight conviction on the catastrophe bond asset class, finding their returns still appealing for investors despite generally lower yields than two years ago.

The Ambassador US mutual catastrophe bond fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management grew its total insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management by approximately 23% in the last quarter of record. Its cat bond holdings have continued to grow taking the fund’s AUM to $537 million by the end of June.

Property Claim Services (PCS), the unit of Verisk that is a provider of industry loss estimates and loss data to the reinsurance and ILS industry globally, has hired Harry White as its new Head of Commercial Strategy, while also naming Ted Gregory as its new Head of Research and Operations.

Analysts from KBW have said that reinsurance executives they met with recently are mostly expecting the June 1 renewals to see property catastrophe rates down around 10% on a risk-adjusted basis, but with significant variation by layer and top-layers where catastrophe bonds and industry-loss warranties (ILWs) sit to see larger declines.

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.