Insurance-linked investments

The catastrophe bond market is not ready for an exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks an index, according to specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Solidum Partners AG, who say it’s not feasible at this time for such a strategy to exist, given challenges in dynamic replication of an index for the cat bond […]

Howden, the global insurance, reinsurance and advisory group, has now added institutional investment consultancy to its growing service offering, having agreed to acquire UK professional services firm Barnett Waddingham.

Radix Insurance Linked Strategies (Radix ILS), the recently launched Bermuda-based third-party capital manager and reinsurance capacity deployment company with a technology-first focus, has now had a collateralized insurer class of company registered on the island.

This video features an expert panel discussing investment trends in private insurance-linked securities (ILS) at our Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference, which was held in New York on February 7th 2025.

The catastrophe bond market continues to present a compelling investment opportunity, with elevated risk premiums, strong demand from insurers and investors, and favourable pricing dynamics likely to drive record issuance in 2025, according to analysis by Kepler Absolute Hedge, a research and data-led provider of insight into hedge fund strategies.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (HSCM), a reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, and Kilter Finance, an insurance-focused specialty financing company, have backed a $170 million debt raise for re/insurer IQUW as it continues to build-out its Bermuda platform.

Highlighting achievements from 2024 when $1.92 billion of capital was deployed through the Lloyd’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure, Deputy CFO Alexandra Cliff said today that the pipeline for the London Bridge platform remains healthy.

Nephila Capital’s specialty lines focused Syndicate 2358 at Lloyd’s continued to expand its operations in 2024, underwriting an impressive 84% more in gross premiums over the year, although its results were hit by losses due to the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

Acrisure Re, the re/insurance division of global fintech Acrisure, has promoted Tom Deane to Managing Director, Head of Acrisure Re Corporate Advisory & Solutions, LLC (ARCAS US), where he will contribute towards the company’s work on insurance-linked strategies.

Nephila Capital’s Syndicate 2357 at Lloyd’s, which is the flagship syndicate operated by the dedicated investment manager focused on the insurance-linked securities (ILS), weather and catastrophe reinsurance space, underwrote an impressive 41% more in gross premiums in 2024.