Insurance-linked investments

There are now only three months until Artemis returns to New York on February 6th 2026 for the tenth insurance-linked securities conference in the ILS NYC series. Around one-third of tickets are already sold for ILS NYC 2026, but the Early Bird rate is still available and we wanted to give an idea of who […]

At AM Best’s Europe Insurance Market & Methodology Briefing in London this week, analysts noted that insurers and reinsurers are managing capital more efficiently, with the growing role of insurance-linked securities (ILS) emerging as an increasingly important alternative capital strategy for risk management.

Chinese financial markets regulator the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) has issued guidance for domestic China market insurance and reinsurance companies to sponsor collateralised sidecar structures out of Hong Kong.

After the third-quarter of 2025, White Mountains has reported that its investment into the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar that supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark has generated pre-tax income of $40 million from the current underwriting year, up on last year.

SCOR Investment Partners has announced a new milestone for its dedicated insurance-linked securities funds platform, surpassing US $5 billion in ILS assets under management, representing a 14% increase in AUM over the first nine months of 2025.

Hiscox CFO Paul Cooper said this morning during an analyst call that while growth into property catastrophe reinsurance may slow for the group in 2026, given the rate environment, the company may elect to cede more to third-party capital as it continues to be able to attract investors.

Speaking during a recent webinar, Dirk Schmelzer, Senior Portfolio Manager for ILS at Plenum Investments AG, outlined that while the organisation expects another decrease in catastrophe bond risk spreads of around 10–15%, the market remains very healthy and is expected to expand further in both size and the range of risks transferred to the cat […]

Following a strong first-half of the year in which it raised new capital from investors Hiscox ILS, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment focused arm of Hiscox Group, saw its ILS assets under management dip to $1.3 billion in the third-quarter after planned returns of capital to its ongoing investors.

With the catastrophe bond market pipeline growing for the fourth-quarter, Artemis is on course to track its first $20 billion year of issuance in 2025, as our extensive and long-standing data set of Rule 144A and private cat bond transactions now has that milestone in sight.

US-headquartered insurance holding company W. R. Berkley Corporation has continued to expand its use of its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar through the third quarter of 2025, with written premiums ceded to the sidecar rising 53% year-on-year to $482 million, the highest level the company has recorded to date.