Insurance-linked investments

Nectaris Re Ltd., the Class 3A Bermuda-based rated reinsurance platform backed by specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP, has reported solid underwriting results again for 2024, according the latest rating affirmation from AM Best.

You can now register to attend our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2025. We return to London on September 2nd, for another full-day of in-depth discussion and debate about the ILS market, as well as valuable networking. Register to attend here.

Siena Capital Group, LLC, a private investment office with a focus on special situations and that counts former Gallagher Securities trading and distribution specialist Jack Stone as a Partner, is targeting the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market with a plan to launch a daily pricing platform later this year.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, is set to liquidate the Post-Event Reinsurance Fund that it originally launched back in 2015, Artemis has learned from company filings.

European insurers accelerated their use of subordinated debt markets in the first quarter of 2025, with issuance volumes hitting their highest Q1 level in 14 years, according to specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Twelve Securis.

Vantage Risk, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance company, has appointed Steve Fales as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations within its partner capital business, effective immediately.

Calidris Investment Partners has been launched as a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance opportunities focused investment start-up by former Ontario Teachers’ insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist Philippe Trahan and former Blackstone insurance transaction specialist Daniel Miller.

This video features an expert panel discussing the opportunity for investors in the growing casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) space at our Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference, which was held in New York on February 7th 2025.

We’ve published this article as an earlier piece on UCITS catastrophe bond fund performance was incorrect, there was an error in the data we received. Based on new data, the average return of UCITS cat bond funds tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices was flat at the first pricing in May, but […]

Robust catastrophe bond issuance in the first and now second quarter of 2025 seems to have taken some of the excess cash out of the market, leading to a little more firmness in pricing of late, K2 Advisors, the hedge fund focused investment management unit of Franklin Templeton has noted.