Tag: insurance-linked securities

December 21, 2021

Nephila Capital, the world’s largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has announced plans for its Lloyd’s specialty syndicate 2358, as the firm looks to provide investors with greater access to the wider specialty insurance market. Set to commence trading in […]

December 3, 2021

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds reported a wide range of performance in October 2021, as despite a quiet month for catastrophe losses, previous cat events drove loss reserve adjustments across the market. Overall in October, private insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, that […]

October 21, 2021

As much as $1.5 trillion of pension fund and private capital could be unlocked to cover climate related risks and perils according to broking group Howden, which is calling on the risk transfer industry to “change insurance for (social) good.” […]

October 15, 2021

The CATCo Reinsurance Opportunities Fund Ltd., the listed, retrocession focused insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy managed by Markel CATCo Investment Management, has again seen its net asset value (NAV) rise after another reduction in catastrophe loss reserves, this time from […]

October 1, 2021

Catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance continued at record pace through the third-quarter of 2021, with over $2.6 billion of new risk capital issued and the market now well on-track to beat all its records in 2021, according […]

September 28, 2021

Investors in insurance-linked securities are leaning toward structured catastrophe bonds rather than broader ILS instruments to steer away from unexpected losses from secondary perils. At the same time, catastrophe bond investors are accepting lower yields than they did two years […]

September 10, 2021

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is expected to continue attracting new investors, leading to continuous growth, while even more investors from around the world are also increasingly getting familiar with the asset class, Lorenzo Volpi of Leadenhall Capital Partners explained […]

September 7, 2021

The United Kingdom needs to work with insurance, reinsurance and capital markets participants, as well as regulators, to develop a “flourishing insurance securitisation market”, making the most of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) regulatory regime that was introduced in 2017, according […]

August 9, 2021

Climate change is running away from us, is the stark warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ‘s (IPCC) Report, which was published today. “Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds […]

August 5, 2021

The return of catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds appear widely dispersed after the first-half of the year, as ILS Advisers reported a range of -5.1% to as high as +8%. This once again demonstrates the wide range of […]

July 13, 2021

A relatively benign second quarter for global catastrophe losses will have been some good news for insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) interests after a challenging few years of losses. Analysts at RBC Capital Markets estimate that natural catastrophe losses […]

July 12, 2021

One of the biggest challenges to providing fully environmental, social and governance (ESG) aligned investment strategies in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is the inability to know what really lies beneath every transaction, in terms of what has been underwritten […]

July 8, 2021

Climate change is not expected to impact all forms of investment in insurance-linked securities (ILS) uniformly, according to Twelve Capital, which means for ILS investors and managers, analysing climate exposure, as well as establishing and updating a house view on […]

July 6, 2021

The hard market in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) continued to weaken through the second-quarter of 2021, leading consultancy Lane Financial LLC to warn that pricing may return to neutral through to the end of the year. Lane Financial’s […]

June 16, 2021

Major insurance and reinsurance companies that had been pulling-back on peak US wind over recent years are being seen to stabilise their exposures in reaction to the higher-priced opportunity coastal risk presents, according to analysts and our sources. The prolonged […]

June 9, 2021

After a flurry of catastrophe bonds launched in recent days, it is now clear that issuance of new catastrophe bonds and other related insurance-linked securities (ILS) tracked here at Artemis will break the record for the second-quarter and also the […]

June 7, 2021

The volume of catastrophe bond notes traded on the secondary market rose again in May 2021, as insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers and cat bond investors adjusted their portfolios to accept the strong almost $3.3 billion of primary issuance seen […]

June 1, 2021

Risk-adjusted pricing for property catastrophe reinsurance was up by between 5% and 10% on average at the June 1st renewals, according to the latest data from HX, the data, analytics and advisory division of Howden Group Holdings. Rate momentum was […]

May 21, 2021

Issuance of new catastrophe bonds and other related insurance-linked securities (ILS) we track here at Artemis is now set to break new ground for the first-half of 2021, with more than $10 billion of issuance now anticipated, according to our […]

April 15, 2021

AXIS Capital, the Bermuda-based, globally-active insurance and reinsurance company, has pre-announced an expectation that it will shoulder up to $90 million of losses after February’s US winter storms, which it bases on an expected industry-wide loss of between $13 billion […]