Marsh to bring alternative capital into data centre risks with $10bn Stratus exchange
Broker Marsh is aiming to bring alternative sources of insurance and reinsurance capital into the digital infrastructure risk transfer sector, through the launch of a $10 billion property insurance exchange named Stratus. Stratus offers access up to $10 billion in property insurance capacity on a single-placement basis, Marsh explained, with this targeted at the complex […]
Swiss pension Nest says ILS investments achieved “convincing results again” in 2025
Nest Sammelstiftung, or the Nest Collective Foundation, a Swiss pension that adopts sustainable investment strategies and allocates to insurance-linked securities through a number of ILS managers has reported that its allocation achieved “convincing results” again in 2025. Nest Sammelstiftung positions itself as an ecological-ethical pension investor, with one of the strategies it incorporates into its […]
EIB and WFP launch parametric insurance scheme to protect Ethiopian smallholder farmers
The European Investment Bank (EIB), through its development arm EIB Global, is issuing a grant of up to €4 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which will be used to support the development and rollout of parametric insurance products to protect smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. According to the announcement, roughly 210,000 smallholder […]