Insurance-linked investments

As Anthropic’s advanced cybersecurity AI model, Claude Mythos, continues to generate significant noise across the cyber sector, investment manager Man Group notes that the per-occurrence structures and high attachment points of existing cyber catastrophe bonds should provide meaningful insulation from future turbulence, for when more advanced AI models eventually become widely available.

France headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japanese insurer Japan Post Insurance on the establishment of a reinsurance investment structure, which will feature subject business from both companies and be invested into by Japan Post Insurance.

In the current softening market environment where reinsurance capital is abundantly available, primary carriers are benefiting from a greater diversity of protection options, across traditional reinsurance, insurance-linked securities and a growing availability of aggregate covers, rating agency KBRA has explained.

While catastrophe bond yields have been on the decline for a number of years now, private bank and asset manager VP Bank AG continues to give the insurance-linked securities asset class a neutral weighting, noting that loss-free yields still remain above average.

In a new report, SCOR Investment Partners has said that while outlooks for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season appear to be more positive compared to recent years, largely due to the emergence of strong El Niño conditions over the summer, portfolio construction remains focused on diversification and resilience, with a key objective of maintaining a high […]

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands-based reinsurance company, along with its subsidiary SurancePlus, has successfully closed five private placements of tokenized reinsurance securities on Solana blockchain, with total gross proceeds of combined offerings amounting to approximately $7.1 million.

Today we have added four more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website, our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.

Insurance-linked securities funds managed by specialist ILS investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP have backed an agreement to acquire the shares of Austrian life insurance specialist company austrion Life.

Swisscanto Asset Management International S.A. has launched its first UCITS catastrophe bond fund under Luxembourg Law, the Swisscanto (LU) Bond Fund Cat Bonds, debuting with just over US $25 million in assets under management (AUM).

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market remains in a strong position, but expanding into international markets and less conventional perils will be critical for the market’s next stage of growth, according to executives at reinsurance broker Howden Re, who note that this expansion is vital both to unlock diversification benefits and to help close global protection […]