Reinsurance linked investment

We return to London on Tuesday September 5th for our next insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, with Artemis London 2023 our second event held in the city and there are now only a few days left to secure a ticket at the best possible price.

Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance and reinsurance linked asset manager, has raised additional capital in advance of the middle of the year, with its overall assets under management reaching the $4 billion mark again at June 30th.

Vesttoo, the insurtech that has been working to connect capital markets with diverse types of re/insurance risk, has come under scrutiny after claims of fraudulent collateral emerged in an Israeli tech publication yesterday.

Despite the news of a range of insurance carriers pulling-back to manage their catastrophe exposure in Florida, there remains an appetite to assume this risk and the state insurance regulator says that it is seeing greater interest and participation in the Florida Citizens Depopulation program in 2023.

The well-established and growing life insurance-linked securities (ILS) segment offers a very stable profile and true diversification for investors, both within ILS and when compared to traditional asset classes, according to industry experts.

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Reflecting very strong market activity in the first-half, catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format saw their combined assets under management (AUM) rise by over 18%, to reach a new record-high of nearly $10.4 billion by the end of June 2023.

The pension fund of global beverage and food giant the Coca Cola Company saw its allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) shrink again in 2022, falling by almost 26% over the course of the year, to just $246 million.

With property catastrophe reinsurance rates and pricing having soared in recent months, rating agency AM Best sees this as a potential headwind for the burgeoning non-cat insurance-linked securities (ILS) segment, as investors focus may shift back to catastrophe risks.

The BofA Securities analyst team say they are increasingly constructive on the reinsurance sector, one reason being that alternative capital growth is not being driven by the collateralized side of the ILS market, while catastrophe bonds are seen as a more compatible instrument and complementary to traditional reinsurance.