Insurance-linked investments

The target allocation range has been reduced for an investment into a Munich Re reinsurance sidecar that features in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolio managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager, on behalf of its end-client Dutch pension PFZW.

Switzerland based pension fund Nest Sammelstiftung, or the Nest Collective Foundation, saw catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as one of its best investment asset classes in performance terms in 2024, benefiting from over 20% across its cat bond and reinsurance allocations.

Institutional investors are searching for diversification, income generation and also defensiveness in their asset selection, as they strive to build resilient portfolios to suit a world defined by fragmentation and flux, a survey from asset manager Schroders explains.

With targets upsized for two 144A catastrophe bond sponsorships that are in the market at this time, the annual record for 144A cat bond issuance could now be exceeded before the end of the first-half of 2025, with close to $17.5 billion now a possible H1 issuance total, if the remaining 144A cat bonds all […]

Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) have become a foundational component of cedant and sponsor reinsurance towers in 2025, with the market now living up to the promise many believed it presented from the start, speakers in our Artemis Live webinar said yesterday.

For AIG its deeper partnership with asset manager Blackstone, which was established with the launch of a multi-year reinsurance sidecar-like syndicate last year, represents a way to optimise for the most efficient capital and an opportunity to generate sizeable fee income, according to Charlie Fry, EVP Reinsurance & Risk Capital Optimization.

Siena Capital Group, LLC has announced that it has appointed Ridwan Bari as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), to spearhead technology strategy across the firm’s portfolio companies and lead the development of Caterina, the Group’s insurance-linked securities platform.

As investors grapple with the challenges of market concentration, rate uncertainty, and sustainability underperformance, insurance-linked securities (ILS) are emerging as a compelling solution for ESG-focused portfolios, according to Tiziana Maida, Head of Research at investment management, wealth planning and consulting specialist IPS Capital LLP.

Catastrophe bond issuance in the second-quarter of 2025 now looks set to exceed $10 billion, marking the period as the first where new cat bonds issued have reached that milestone in any official quarter, as activity this year continues to propel the market to new heights, Artemis’ data shows.

Having increased the capital base of its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar structure and raised the proportional quota share for 2025, W. R. Berkley ceded a significant 82% more in reinsurance and retrocession premiums to the structure in the first-quarter of 2025.