Life insurance-linked securities news

Challenger Life, a large Australian life and retirement income underwriter and investor, has reported that its investments into insurance-linked securities (ILS), which are predominantly catastrophe bonds, beat their benchmark in the last six months of record for the firm.

Our latest video features the third panel discussion of the day at Artemis London 2025, a session focused on the non-catastrophe opportunities in ILS, from our fourth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City of London, UK, held on September 2nd 2025.

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) of the Bank of England has published a discussion paper to gather feedback on how the UK’s insurance special purpose vehicle (ISPV) or ILS structures can play a role towards bringing in alternative capital to support life risks and reinsurance in the UK.

Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has hired life ILS portfolio management specialist Antonio Pombeiro, who joins the firm from Twelve Securis .

Artemis can reveal that specialist ILS manager Twelve Securis is the seller of a seasoned portfolio of life insurance-linked securities (ILS) that Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (HSCM) is acquiring through the launch of a new fund, with this deal demonstrating the increasing sophistication of market players and growing maturity of the ILS sector.

Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. (HSCM), undertaking its reinsurance investment business through the HSCM Bermuda unit, has raised $110 million to launch a new fund named HS Sawmill LP, that has been formed to acquire a seasoned portfolio of life insurance-linked securities (ILS).

Discussing the FundedRe trend for UK life insurers and pensions to source offshore reinsurance for their risks, Vicky White, the Director for Prudential Policy at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) of the Bank of England, has highlighted the UK ILS structure and regulatory regime as one way that patient capital could be sourced and brought […]

Challenger Life, a large Australian life and retirement income underwriter and investor, saw its insurance-linked investment allocation shrink slightly over the course of the last year, but cited higher catastrophe bond distributions as one driver of improved investment yields in the financial year.

According to senior executives at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the fee income flowing to the company from its third-party capitalised Ruby Re life reinsurance sidecar is already meaningful and while a new transaction was ceded to the sidecar in Q3 last year, the structure still had around two-thirds of its capital and capacity left […]

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.