Insurance-linked investments

While the first-quarter of 2026 failed to set a new issuance record for the period in the catastrophe bond market, rising activity in recent weeks means that cat bond issuance this year could hit the $10 billion milestone around one week faster than it did a year ago, according to Artemis’ data and analysis.

Hamilton Insurance Group, Ltd., a Bermuda based specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has announced the launch of its first casualty reinsurance sidecar with a plan to cede around $300 million of premium to it over the multi-year duration of structure and investment firm Sixth Street as the provider of capital and an asset strategy to […]

The insurance and reinsurance industry is currently treating artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential “force-multiplier” for cyber losses, but the pace of development of AI and its roll-out is reshaping cyber risk in general and introduces portfolio aggregation and loss correlation risks, specialist modeller CyberCube has explained.

While Hannover Re has expanded its range of insurance-linked securities services and facilitation, responding to market demand, the company sees collateralised fronting as the centrepiece of this capital market focused aspect of its global reinsurance operations, executives Silke Sehm and Patrick Horstmann told us in an interview.

Despite its status as the world’s largest asset class, fixed income is not usually recognised for its environmental or social contributions. However, a recent article argues that investors are overlooking significant opportunities within the space, highlighting catastrophe bonds as a fundamental pillar of impact-driven fixed income.

Arch Capital, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance specialist, is refreshing one of its third-party capital structures again this year, as the Voussoir Re Ltd. collateralized reinsurance sidecar and special purpose insurance (SPI) vehicle has issued new preferred shares for the second year running.

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, has provided us a detailed overview of the processes the organisation uses to designate and estimate insurance industry losses for perils such as U.S. tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms, and winter […]

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According to a new working paper by catastrophe modelling specialist Reask and specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager LGT ILS Partners, a climate-conditioned Industry Loss Warranty (ILW) strategy can materially outperform traditional static modeling approaches.

This new video features another panel discussion from Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the cat bond marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.