Insurance-linked investments

As per accountancy firm Deloitte’s 2026 Global Insurance Outlook, property and casualty (P&C) and life insurers are increasingly turning to investor-backed and other forms of alternative capital to navigate shifting market conditions.

Stone Ridge, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment management group, has executed on a $1.2 billion adverse development reinsurance cover for global re/insurer Everest Group.

In a world where while asset prices are rising the outlook remains uncertain with volatility lurking, wealth managers at US Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the United States, have again spotlighted reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as potentially valuable diversification for investors at this time.

King Ridge Capital Advisors LLC, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager and the sub-advisor to the Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF (ILS), has established a UCITS ETF catastrophe bond fund structure in Ireland.

Plenum Investments AG, the Swiss based specialist manager of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has experienced substantial growth in assets raised for its Plenum European Insurance Bond Fund, a UCITS investment strategy focused on the debt issuances of European insurers.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space moves through the second half of 2025, a lighter period of catastrophe losses would still likely see hard-market discipline on structures and terms continue into the January renewals, according to Jean-Louis Monnier, Head of ILS at Swiss Re Capital Markets.

Our latest video features the second panel discussion of the day at Artemis London 2025, a session focused on the catastrophe bond market segment, from our fourth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City of London, UK, held on September 2nd 2025.

Fundamental Global Inc. (FG Nexus) has entered an agreement to sell a majority stake of its FG Reinsurance Division (FGRe) to Devondale Holdings LLC, led by renowned industry veteran Tom Heise.

Speaking at the 2025 Convergence event in Bermuda last week, Tom Johansmeyer, Global Head of Index Classes, at broker Price Forbes Re, made a notable claim, suggesting that the industry’s perception of cyber war is keeping capital away and hindering market growth.

A new paper authored by Sayuri Shirai, ADBI Fellow at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), explores how banks can utilise catastrophe bonds and puts forward an interesting suggestion, that as sponsors or co-sponsors, banks could bundle the climate exposure from their other assets into cat bonds to hedge against growing climate risks.