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Working with third-party capital using insurance-linked securities (ILS) calls for a partnership approach and alignment of interests, AXIS Capital executives told Artemis in a recent video interview.

Compared to the “great reload” after the significant impacts and losses associated with the 2017 hurricane season, after the 2021 losses investors have been more curious about what insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers are doing in response, according to Lorenzo Volpi, Managing Partner at Leadenhall Capital Partners.

Man Group, a global independent alternative and active investment management firm, is building out a range of capital solutions services of relevance to the insurance and reinsurance industry, which includes the ability to help third-party investors access returns derived from insurance risks.

Secondary perils require a particular level of focus, investment and effort, when it comes to modelling risks of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance portfolios, Aeolus Capital Management executives told us recently.

Investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global Management and its life and retirement reinsurance company Athene expect the Athene Co-Invest Reinsurance Affiliate (ACRA) third-party capitalised sidecar vehicle could drive around $60 billion of premium float, from its initial capital pool of $3.2 billion.

Despite the fact insurance-linked securities (ILS) themselves have the tail-risk of major global natural catastrophe events firmly embedded in the asset class, as part of a broader alternatives allocation ILS are “particularly suitable for reducing tail risks” in investor portfolios, according to the BAI.

For our latest Artemis Live video interview we explored the importance of climate risk models in the management of portfolios of reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), with senior executives from Aeolus Capital Management.

Athene Holding Ltd., the life and retirement reinsurance company majority owned by investor and private equity specialist Apollo Global, put third-party capital from its Athene Co-Invest Reinsurance Affiliate (ACRA) sidecar to work in a huge $4.9 billion pension risk transfer deal.

United States based life, retirement and annuities insurance and reinsurance company Global Atlantic Financial Group is expanding its reach, with its first closed life block reinsurance deal outside the US, in which it has again put third-party capital from its Ivy Re sidecar-like structure to work.

Randall & Quilter (R&Q) Investment Holdings, the specialist non-life insurance and reinsurance legacy investor and program manager, has novated four portfolio agreements related to ILS P&C Re, the property & casualty run-off focused insurance-linked investment fund linked to Credit Suisse and sub-advisor ILS Investment Management (ILSIM).