Reinsurance linked investment

Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, the hedge fund-focused arm of the global asset manager, has moderated its stance on the catastrophe bonds asset class slightly from ‘strongly overweight’ to ‘overweight’ for Q4 2026, which in turn has led the firm to shift its stance on the insurance-linked securities market to ‘neutral’.

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Global re/insurer Generali is the latest to enter the Lloyd’s market with what seems a sidecar-like syndicate as a way to enhance and make its reinsurance arrangements more efficient, while the announcements points to the potential for alternative and capital markets to be involved.

As industry focus grows on designing efficient structures to enable capital to connect with reinsurance risk, Lloyd’s has issued guidance on its expectations for any broker-originated reinsurance structures, which is a strategy that Lloyd’s itself believes is likely to see increasing demand.

Josh Wander, one of the co-founders of investment firm 777 Partners, has pled guilty to wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with a $500 million plus scheme to defraud lenders and investors of the company.

Nascent Re Ltd. a licensed reinsurance transformer owned and operated by Bermuda-based Nascent Group, has issued another $36 million of preferred share insurance-linked securities, across two series named Plymouth and Warwick.

Marsh clients are exploring greater use of third-party capital solutions, including sidecars for liability portfolios, as abundant reinsurance capacity and relatively benign catastrophe losses keep market conditions competitive ahead of the January 1 renewals, according to John Doyle, the firm’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Artex Capital Solutions, the insurance-linked securities market service provider and insurance management specialist, has bolstered its Bermuda advisory team with the addition of two new hires, in Michael Kenny and Andrew Hanley.

Speaking yesterday at the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2026 conference, Bob Smith, President & Co-CIO of fixed income and alternative solutions manager Sage Advisory, explained that he sees insurance-linked securities as an asset class that can expand the horizon of impact investing.

For investors in the insurance-linked securities asset class, when pitching a potential allocation to their investment committees the task is helped by the fact ILS has a strong narrative to tell, when it comes to proving its diversification benefits and has the data to support that, speakers at the Convergence 2026 conference in Bermuda said […]