Reinsurance linked investment

Hannover Re’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) market facilitation activities continued to expand in 2024, with the number of collateralised reinsurance participations fronted for investors rising, while its catastrophe bond fronting also grew to a new record level.

Brookmont Capital Management, LLC is reportedly looking at options to bring its US listed catastrophe bond ETF to Europe, which would expand the universe of investors able to allocate to the firm’s cat bond strategy.

Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has hired experienced capital raising specialist Alexander Loosley to its Executive Board, as Head of Capital Formation and Strategic Initiatives.

Institutional investors are increasingly turning to catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) as a reliable source of yield, diversification, and macroeconomic resilience, according to Mariagiovanna Guatteri,  CEO of Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC).

Insurance holding company Ambac Financial Group, Inc. saw its Cirratta insurance distribution division enter 2025 with more than $1.5 billion of third-party capacity, sourced from a range of reinsurance market participants and third-party investors.

Artemis has partnered with Computershare to host a live webinar on June 17th 2025, in which our industry expert speakers will discuss conditions in the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at mid-year 2025.

AP2, or Andra AP-fonden, a Swedish state pension fund that is one of the largest in Europe at SEK 459 billion under management, saw its insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocation rise in value to around US $1.1 billion by the end of 2024, with the ILS asset class exceeding its long-term return expectations last year.

Nephila Capital, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager unit of Markel, has promoted Bermuda-based employee Mark Richardson to the position of Head of Underwriting.

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The average return of UCITS catastrophe bond fund strategies was 1.38% for the first-quarter of 2025, according to the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices. But lower-risk cat bond funds led the way by averaging 1.50% for the period as a group, as they generally had less exposure to the California wildfire cat bond mark-downs.