Reinsurance linked investment

Bamboo Ide8 Insurance Services, LLC, a data-driven insurance distribution platform, has finalised a multi-year sidecar transaction through Greenshoots Re, the first MGA-sponsored sidecar. The deal supports Bamboo’s new California admitted programme with MS Transverse.

Andrew Poreda, Vice President, Senior Research Analyst at Sage Advisory Services, the fixed income and alternative solutions manager, has highlighted in a new report that catastrophe bonds are superior financial instruments across many risk metrics, with the analyst particularly flagging how they offer diversification to investors when they need it most.

A new restricted special purpose insurer (SPI) named Huygens Re Ltd. has been established in Bermuda, which we understand will become the dedicated structure for the insurance-linked securities investment into a quota share with reinsurance firm PartnerRe for PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investor.

Whilst it appears that a super El Niño could be on the horizon, a new commentary from VP Bank AG authored by Senior Investment Strategist Bernhard Allgäuer indicates that insurance-linked securities (ILS) can provide portfolio diversification as their returns are driven by natural disasters, rather than financial market turmoil, making them largely uncorrelated with traditional […]

Reinsurance sidecars remain a key theme in 2026, with third-party capital deployment holding broadly stable despite a rapidly evolving landscape of perils and structures, according to Aon Securities, the broker-dealer and investment banking arm of the broking firm.

The catastrophe bond market reached new heights in terms of issuance and activity levels in the second-quarter of 2026, with a number of important records being set as cat bond sponsors and investors continued to show growing commitment to the space.

A new insurer has been launched supported by third-party capital from investors and asset managers KKR-backed Kilter Finance and Blue Owl Capital, with newly rated WoodStar Reciprocal Exchange set to provide dedicated underwriting capacity through the Accelerant Risk Exchange.

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As Anthropic’s advanced cybersecurity AI model, Claude Mythos, continues to generate significant noise across the cyber sector, investment manager Man Group notes that the per-occurrence structures and high attachment points of existing cyber catastrophe bonds should provide meaningful insulation from future turbulence, for when more advanced AI models eventually become widely available.

For casualty reinsurers, managing risk effectively requires constant alignment across the entire value chain. Yet, traditional reporting methods and disconnected systems frequently cause reporting delays that can hurt capital efficiency. Given this, Peter McKelvy, Co-Founder of Northern Re, speaks to Artemis to discuss how the company’s platform updates models instantly to eliminate this information lag.