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Global reinsurance company Swiss Re grew its collateralized reinsurance sidecar and insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund assets under management by 29% in 2022, lifting the third-party investor total to $2.9 billion.

Netherlands-based pension investor PGGM had increased the size of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) market investments to roughly US $8.5 billion (EUR 8.2bn) as of the middle of the year, with this growth at a time of overall asset devaluation likely the trigger for its more recent downsizing in the asset class.

Netherlands-based pension investor PGGM is set to reduce the overall size of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) market investments, as the groups ILS portfolio has now grown substantially above the target allocation percentage, Artemis has learned.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has set up a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) venture, launching an SEC registered investment adviser today named Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC), which will have a focus on catastrophe bond investment management.

The senior leadership of global reinsurance company Swiss Re is bullish that insurance-linked securities (ILS) investor appetite will recover after a recent lull caused by losses and uncertainty, they explained at the firm’s investor day yesterday.

Global reinsurance company Swiss Re gave some insights into its growing Alternative Capital Partners business this morning, explaining that the annual fee income earned from alternative reinsurance capital activities and insurance-linked securities (ILS) management is on track for US $100 million.

PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager that continues to be the largest single investor in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, increased its ILS portfolio to roughly US $8.2 billion, while adding new mandates with Aeolus, SCOR and a managed account structure named Nightingale Re.

As Swiss Re grows its natural catastrophe exposures, which CEO Christian Mumenthaler today called “a core competence”, the company is benefiting from its expanding use of alternative reinsurance capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS), CFO John Dacey explained.

Swiss Re continued to expand its alternative reinsurance capital assets under management across the range of insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures it manages for 2022, with notable successes in growing sidecar commitments for its PGGM-backed vehicle and its multi-investor Sector Re sidecar.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re, through its specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund management unit Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Management Ltd (SRILIM), has secured a US $250 million investment into its 1863 ILS fund platform from the largest Swedish private pension Alecta.