Insurance-linked investments

LGT Capital Partners (LGT CP), the global alternative investments specialist, is bringing a new multi-strategy alternatives investment fund offering to Australia, with insurance-linked securities (ILS) part of its portfolio.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd., undertaking its insurance and reinsurance investment business as HSCM Bermuda, has participated in a $44 million capital raise for CAPE Analytics, a technology firm offering structured property and geospatial data and analytics.

Bermuda domiciled re/insurance, run-off and legacy specialist Enstar Group has bought back its shares and a stake in its joint-venture reinsurer, Enhanzed Reinsurance Ltd. (Enhanzed Re), that were held by investment manager Hillhouse Capital Management.

Private equity investment giant Blackstone has once again demonstrated its appetite for access to profit, returns and float from the insurance and reinsurance market by signing an agreement with global firm AIG, which benefits to the tune of $2.4 billion, a new investment partnership and by securing a partnership that could deepen with a leading […]

While catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security (ILS) spreads have tightened during the second-quarter of 2021, hedge fund specialist manager K2 Advisors believes that they remain attractive relative to corporate credit and are a strategy investors should be focusing on.

AGILE Risk Partners, the specialist technology-focused direct & facultative (D&F) property risk underwriting start-up with an eye on the capital markets for capacity, has now told us it has completed its first two D&F insurance-linked securities (ILS) transactions.

United States based life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company Global Atlantic Financial Group is expanding its reach, with its first closed life block reinsurance deal outside the US, in which it has again put third-party capital from its Ivy Re sidecar-like structure to work.

One of the biggest challenges to providing fully environmental, social and governance (ESG) aligned investment strategies in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is the inability to know what really lies beneath every transaction, in terms of what has been underwritten by cedents along the market chain.

The return of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds as a group was above average in May 2021, at 0.58%, and even if you subtract the extraordinary boost one fund got due to what is expected to have been wildfire subrogation recoveries, the average ILS fund return was still better than the long-term mean.

Twelve Capital Management, the Zurich-headquartered insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, is expanding its distribution capabilities with two new hires focused on the UK and Benelux/Nordics markets and a partnership focused on the Italian and Spanish markets.