Insurance-linked investments

Today we are delighted to announce our final group of new expert speakers for our catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in London on Tuesday September 3rd. Tickets for Artemis London 2024 are selling fast, so please register now if you want to attend.

Over the first-half of this year, US headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation ceded fewer premiums to its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, despite the vehicle remaining the same size in capital terms for 2024.

Analysis from global consultancy Bain & Company suggests that institutional investors will increase their allocation to alternative asset classes by a 10% CAGR from 2022 to 2032, to reach at least $60 trillion.

Global reinsurance company Ariel Re appears set to further formalise its activities in third-party capital management and helping investors access its risk under a new brand, with an entity named Ariel Re Capital Partners being established by the firm, Artemis can report.

In time, as wildfire risk models advance and the market becomes more accepting of them, Guy Carpenter executives suggest investor confidence may increase, resulting in a growing willingness to deploy ILS capital to support the California market’s need for wildfire protection.

The management of fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance are praised for the rapid and determined response to the issues that arose when the company found itself caught up in the reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud perpetrated by Vesttoo, according to rating agency KBRA.

Two more series of private catastrophe bond notes have been issued by the Artex Capital Solutions managed Eclipse Re Ltd. vehicle, with these new deals amounting to almost $12.5 million in risk capital, taking total private catastrophe bond issuance for 2024 so far to nearly $400 million, according to Artemis’ data on the cat bond […]

There are now only two weeks to go until our catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference in London on Tuesday September 3rd. Tickets for Artemis London 2024 are selling fast, so please register soon if you want to attend.

Accelerant, the insurtech that helps members exchange or transfer risk more effectively and connects them with long-term capital, has appointed its first Head of Capital Markets, hiring Peter Shen for the position, an executive with experience in investment banking and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP, the London-headquartered specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investment manager, has launched a new catastrophe bond fund targeting investors in Australia and New Zealand, working in partnership with Bennelong Funds Management.