Discussing the road to a $200 billion insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at the SIFMA ILS 2025 conference in Miami today, speakers stressed that considered deployment of capital at reasonable pricing and terms will be critical to continuing and perhaps accelerating the current growth trajectory.
With catastrophe bond issuance on record-setting pace in 2025 so far and investor appetite for private reinsurance opportunities seen to be expanding, panellists in the first session of the event were keen to point out that a careful approach to managing ILS capital levels, pricing and terms will all be important to sustaining investor interest in the space.
Chris Parry, Global Head at RenaissanceRe Capital Partners began, “For us, alternative capital is part of the DNA of RenRe, and we’ve been managing third party capital, utilising third party capital, for 25 years.
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