Reinsurance linked investment

With the announcement today that insurance and reinsurance specialist Vantage Group is set to be acquired by Howard Hughes Holdings, the firm’s third-party collateralized reinsurance capital business AdVantage received a positive mention from the acquirer’s executives during an analyst call.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, it still offers attractive opportunities for investors, with strong results over the past few years bringing increased investor capital into ILS funds, according to Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director at Schroders Capital.

Morgan Stanley recently surveyed over 900 institutional investors to understand their current thoughts on sustainable investments. With climate adaptation and resilience growing in prominence as themes, investors cited catastrophe bonds and physical risk insurance contracts among their top picks.

We have another speaker announcement for our upcoming insurance-linked securities conference today, with four more experts added to the roster. There are only 15 Early Bird tickets left for ILS NYC 2026 after which standard tickets will go on sale. Please register now if you want to benefit from the final discounted rate.

Pillar Capital Management Limited, the Bermuda-based specialist collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has hired former SS&C employee Ken Mahadeo as Vice President, Operations.

With 2025 setting new records for catastrophe bond issuance, the market is expected to maintain its strong momentum as it heads into 2026 as a resilient and growing asset class with strong technical underpinnings, Etienne Schwartz, CIO Liquid Strategies at ILS investment manager Twelve Securis told Artemis.

Issuance of Rule 144A property catastrophe bonds in 2025 surpassed the $20 billion milestone today as the settlement of the largest wildfire cat bond ever seen, sponsored by the California FAIR Plan, has taken the total for the year-to-date to just over $20.7 billion, Artemis data shows.

Having recently launched the OAK Enterprise retrocession focused Syndicate 1440 at Lloyd’s, executives from the company spoke with Artemis to discuss the opportunity they see in writing retro with the backing and support of third-party capital investors, as well as use of the London Bridge ILS structure to channel funding.

Willis Re, the recently established reinsurance brokerage launched by WTW in a joint venture established with specialist private investment firm Bain Capital, is building out its broking expertise of relevance to the insurance-linked securities and third-party reinsurance capital markets.

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