Insurance-linked investments

With the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season now underway, the key meteorological factors influencing tropical cyclones have pointed towards a below-average season in terms of storm numbers, which affects the tactical positioning of an insurance-linked securities (ILS) or catastrophe bond portfolio, a new report from Solidum Partners AG has highlighted.

A recent paper from investment manager Neuberger Berman highlights catastrophe bonds as a “very compelling opportunity” for investors seeking genuine portfolio diversification, which comes at a time when macroeconomic uncertainty and risk-asset volatility are expected to remain in focus for the foreseeable future.

Youssef Sfaif, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Everest Group’s third-party reinsurance capital manager Mt. Logan Capital Management, Ltd. is set to depart from the company later this year, we’ve learned from sources.

Everest Group has announced the launch of Annapurna Re Ltd., the specialty re/insurers first casualty reinsurance sidecar, revealing an expectation of deploying $600 million of third-party capital through the structure, while Stone Point Insurance Solutions is the anchor investor backing the venture.

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, alongside its subsidiary SurancePlus, has announced annualised returns of 29.3% and 43.4% for investors in its 2025- 2026 EtaCat Re and ZetaCat Re tokenized reinsurance offerings, which has exceeded their original respective target returns of 20% and 42%.

With the development of a strong El Niño expected to be one of the key drivers of global catastrophe risk during the second half of 2026 and into early 2027, specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Twelve Securis believes that it will also drive a redistribution of risk across the re/insurance and ILS […]

As market volatility continues to drive a rising demand for structured solutions, reinsurers are increasingly forced to handle complex client objectives all at once, and being able to successfully execute these deals requires underwriting, pricing, and capital teams to be well aligned from the very start. In order to tackle this, Northern Re has built […]

CRC Group, a wholesale insurance services and distribution specialist, has launched a new Risk Solutions Division to advance its focus on developing proprietary capacity, capital partnerships and alternative risk solutions, including its reinsurance sidecars, appointing Bill Goldstein to lead the division.

Stone Point Capital LLC, the private equity and credit investment firm with an insurance and reinsurance specialism, has successfully raised $610.5 million in a first close for a new strategy, named the Stone Point Insurance Solutions Fund.

Augment Risk, the risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm, has hired well-known insurance-linked securities market executive Brad Livingston, who joins the firm to strengthen its ILS team and in particular is expected to help grow the private ILS offering in property risk, given his collateralized reinsurance expertise.