As both catastrophe bonds and private reinsurance continue to gain momentum, institutional investors should not be viewing the two as competing asset classes, as their respective strengths are complementary to each other, which ultimately allows investors to build more diversified catastrophe risk portfolios, LGT ILS Partners’ Christian Bruns told Artemis in an interview.
Speaking to Artemis around the 2026 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) reinsurance industry event, Bruns, who serves as Partner/Portfolio Manager at LGT ILS Partners, outlined how investors can combine both catastrophe bonds and private reinsurance in order to achieve the most efficient risk-return profile.
Catastrophe bonds have heavily dominated recent ILS inflows, which has come as investors have adopted a view that cat bonds are a safer and more transparent alternative to private reinsurance.
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