Insurance-linked investments

London headquartered insurance and reinsurance marketplace Lloyd’s has hired Adrian Gfeller, the former Managing Director of ILS fund backed syndicate Arcus 1856, as a Senior Manager in its Portfolio Analytics function.

It is a compelling time for investors to build on their insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocations Schroders Capital believes, with the asset manager forecasting persistent cat bond spread widening into 2023.

The balance-of-power in the global reinsurance and retrocession market is shifting towards sellers of protection, over buyers, with rate hardening now potentially set to “accelerate” through 2023, according to analysts at investment bank Berenberg.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond funds gained 0.97% in the month of October 2022, as some ILS funds rebounded somewhat after hurricane Ian, as losses from the storm appeared lower than expected for some cedents.

Independent specialty insurance program manager K2 Insurance Services, the parent and service provider to MGA’s K2 CAT and K2 Parametric, has announced that it is being acquired by global growth investor Warburg Pincus.

Securis Investment Partners has launched the fourth vintage of its long-standing life insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, with close to $300 million of capital backing this vintage.

Higher-risk focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies appear to be averaging losses around the 17% mark after hurricane Ian, according to a report from Frontier Advisors.

According to international broking group Howden and specialty insurance and reinsurance firm Fidelis, writing business for higher ESG rated counterparties tends to lead to better underwriting performance.

According to market sources, Aeolus Capital Management is expected to be able to provide a significant degree of continuity to its clients at the upcoming reinsurance renewals and throughout 2023.

Today we are announcing the second wave of expert speakers who will be joining us at our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, Artemis ILS NYC 2023 on February 10th in New York City. Please register soon to guarantee your place at the conference.