Reinsurance sidecars news

The reinsurance sidecar market witnessed rapid growth throughout 2025, particularly in Bermuda, where a number of major re/insurers launched casualty reinsurance sidecars during the year, which demonstrates how investors have a growing interest in longer-duration casualty risk exposure that offers high yields and diversification from property catastrophe risk, says Fitch Ratings.

The boards of Zurich and Beazley have now agreed terms of the approximately £8.1 billion all-cash offer by Zurich for Beazley’s shares, while we understand that as the transaction proceeds it is business as usual for Beazley’s Bermuda cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) plans.

Everest Group, the global insurance and reinsurance specialist, benefited from a $35 million dividend payment from its Mt. Logan Re Ltd., third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure in 2025, while also earning $7 million of income from its investment into specific Mt. Logan Re cells.

Swiss Re has reported strong profits and hitting its financial targets for 2025, as well as a relatively stable premium volume for the key January reinsurance renewals. Demonstrating the profitability of the reinsurance business the company will now return more capital to its shareholders, but is a second major player to opt for less retrocession […]

Munich Re has demonstrated the power of a large diversified reinsurance and insurance group in beating its profit target for 2025, while showing its desire to retain more of the economics of its re/insurance business by slashing its retrocession arrangements and scrapping its collateralized reinsurance sidecar programme.

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) will be sending proposals to the Government of India regarding the regulator’s suggested framework that would allow re/insurers to set up reinsurance sidecars in a special purpose insurance (SPI) structure, Chairman K. Rajaraman announced at the Global Conference of Actuaries 2026 earlier this week.

With Arundo Re recently completing its eighth vintage of its 157 Re reinsurance sidecar, Mathieu Halm, Board Secretary and Chief Retrocession & Alternative Capital Officer of the firm recently told Artemis how the vehicle has become a reliable and central alternative capital vehicle for the firm, and how the company sees it as one of […]

QBE, the global re/insurer, sees alternative reinsurance capital as an important lever to allow the company to deliver sustainable returns in the mid-teens, according to its CEO Andrew Horton and CFO Chris Killourhy, with recent catastrophe bond and casualty sidecar initiatives seen as early deals to help in building a profile within ILS markets.

AXIS Capital, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance underwriter, has put a new reporting line in place for its insurance-linked securities (ILS) division AXIS ILS, with Group Chief Underwriting Officer Dan Draper adding that to his responsibilities.

Challenger Life, a large Australian life and retirement income underwriter and investor, has reported that its investments into insurance-linked securities (ILS), which are predominantly catastrophe bonds, beat their benchmark in the last six months of record for the firm.