Reinsurance linked investment

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has signed a multi-year agreement with Moody’s to utilise the firms catastrophe risk models, analytics and exposure datasets to support its underwriting, portfolio management and decision-making across ILS opportunities.

Insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, saw returns accelerating in August 2026, as the average ILS fund performance reached 1.39% and cat bond funds had a particularly strong month, latest data from the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows.

The current soft market in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) is not yet at the depressed levels seen in 2017, analysis from consultancy Lane Financial LLC shows. But the company suggests the soft cat bond market could last another year, if 2026 continues to run loss-free.

With the life and annuity reinsurance space seeing a wave of interest from both internal and external sponsors, including third-party capital providers, Marsh has launched a new platform initiative named Archer that is designed to help sponsors quickly set up and launch a new life and annuity reinsurance structure including sidecars.

As Rule 144A property catastrophe bond issuance continues to surge, spreads have also been compressed through a combination of reinsurance rates softening and high levels of capital and investor appetite, given this, Dr. Raffaele Dell’Amore, Partner at Icosa Investments AG, has stressed to Artemis that market capacity must follow genuine opportunity, rather than capital outstripping demand.

Registration is now open for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. ILS NYC 2027 will be held in New York on February 5th 2027. We’ve sold out our ILS NYC conference every year, so lock-in your attendance by registering today. Reserve your place now while the Super Early Bird rate lasts.

The reinsurance sidecar market is expected to continue expanding thanks to notable momentum being seen in casualty sidecar structures, according to rating agency AM Best. The firm also highlights that the broader collateralized reinsurance space is poised for future expansion due to greater flexibility in structure, modeling, and perils.

This new video features the opening panel discussion of the day at our recent Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference, a session exploring how Lloyd’s market participants are accessing institutional investor capital through the UK based ILS structure London Bridge.

Analysts from Jefferies are not confident that reinsurance leadership teams are fully-acknowledging how fast rates have been softening and believe that the focus will shift to terms and conditions from 2028, while a soft market floor may not be found until 2030.

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