Insurance-linked investments

With catastrophe bond market yields still elevated by historical standards, Dirk Schmelzer, Head Portfolio Manager for ILS / CAT Bonds and a Partner at Plenum Investments AG, believes catastrophe bond funds can deliver high single-digit to low double-digit returns in 2025, on a no loss basis.

There is now less than two months to go until our upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference in New York on February 7th next year, and today we are delighted to announce four more expert speakers you can hear from on the day, if you register to attend our event.

Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon has promoted Ciaran Healy to the role of Global Captive Leader for the firm’s Commercial Risk Solutions division, a position that will see him also with responsibility for the management of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and protected cell structures as well.

Farsight Partners, a specialist UK-based boutique advisory with a focus on life insurance-linked investment opportunities, has agreed a partnership with global alternative investment manager AB CarVal with up to $1 billion of life and health insurance related transactions in scope.

Catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices averaged a 1% return for November, taking their year-to-date return to an average of 12.57%.

As the Atlantic hurricane season drew to its close, the overall yield of the catastrophe bond market continued its typical seasonal declining trend, albeit at a slightly slower pace as there were also supply-demand factors evident in the market, but still by the end of November 2024, the cat bond market yield stood at a […]

The Brazilian insurance regulator SUSEP has now authorised the first insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure in the country, with Andrina sponsored by IRB Re and now approved to issue Letra de Risco de Seguro (Insurance Risk Letters), which is the name for the insurance-linked notes a Brazilian ILS structure can issue to be sold to investors.

You would be forgiven for thinking the industry had moved on from the debacle that was the Vesttoo reinsurance letter of credit (LOC) fraud, but legal action continues and the latest case to be filed sees fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance suing China Construction Bank for damages.

Speaking at a Fitch Ratings event on the development of insurance-linked securities (ILS) in Brazil, Rodrigo Botti, former CFO of IRB and former CEO of Terra Brasis, emphasised a domestic market-first approach, with no intention of competing with other established ILS hubs.

Today, we are delighted to announce that casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) and investment opportunities in parametric risk transfer structures, will be the focus of two main panel sessions at our upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference in New York on February 7th next year.