Selectivity & climate insights vital for ILS investment success: AXA IM’s Divet
A selective approach and a deep understanding of climate-related risks are key to managing insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments, according to François Divet, Head of ILS at AXA Investment Managers. Divet recently highlighted both positive supply and demand factors for ILS, while also explaining that due to climate change and its potential effect on catastrophe loss […]
For second in a row, ILS Advisers Index records highest monthly return since inception
The broad benchmark index for insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, the Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index, has recorded the highest monthly return since its inception in 2006 for the second consecutive month, being up by 1.91% for the month of September 2024. Just a month ago, this index of ILS fund returns was up by 1.71% for August […]
Private reinsurance investments can offer outperformance: Koller, LGT ILS Partners
Some investors have started to experience benefits from the outperformance of investments in the private reinsurance segment compared to catastrophe bonds, after softening of pricing had been seen in the second quarter, Pascal Koller Partner and Portfolio Manager at LGT ILS Partners Ltd., recently commented. Speaking with Artemis in an interview around the reinsurance conference […]
Cat bond market yield rose on hurricane repricing, but soon reverted to normal trend
The overall yield of the catastrophe bond market rose as the market repriced positions in the wake of recent hurricane Milton, but like other market indices and the performance of cat bond funds themselves, the effect of the storm has been quickly overtaken by continued positive market momentum. In recent months the catastrophe bond market […]
Florida state pension increased ILS allocations at mid-year, but more cautious on 1/1
The Florida Retirement System Pension Plan, which is administered by the Florida State Board of Administration, increased its allocations to natural catastrophe insurance-linked securities (ILS) in advance of the mid-year 2024 reinsurance renewals, but has adopted a more cautious stance for 1/1 as it assesses whether the hard market is declining. With some $198 billion […]
Florida state pension increased ILS allocations at mid-year, but more cautious on 1/1
The Florida Retirement System Pension Plan, which is administered by the Florida State Board of Administration, increased its allocations to natural catastrophe insurance-linked securities (ILS) in advance of the mid-year 2024 reinsurance renewals, but has adopted a more cautious stance for 1/1 as it assesses whether the hard market is declining. With some $198 billion […]
Swiss Re cat bond index rises further, more than regains Milton decline
With catastrophe bond market returns remaining elevated, the cat bond market index calculated by Swiss Re Capital Markets rose again in the last week, regaining all of the decline seen from hurricane Milton and more, to now stand 0.25% higher than when that storm hit. When catastrophe bonds were priced for the first time after […]
AI-improved risk modelling can streamline catastrophe bond transactions: World Bank
According to executives at the World Bank, artificial intelligence (AI) based improvements to catastrophe risk modelling could in future allow more transactions to be brought to the catastrophe bond market, with less lead time and potentially wider investor acceptance. In a joint report on the matter, the World Bank’s Michael Bennett, Head of Market Solutions […]
Twelve Capital surpasses $4bn in cat bond and ILS AUM for the first time
Twelve Capital, the Zurich-headquartered insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bond and reinsurance investment manager, has reached a new milestone in terms of third-party assets under management, surpassing $4 billion for the very first time across its cat bond and ILS portfolios. With a more than 14 year history of insurance and reinsurance-linked investment management, Twelve Capital […]
ILS: simple, powerful, and accessible for all
“Insurance-linked securities (ILS) offer a good alternative or complement to reinsurance, and nothing complicated,” said Kirill Savrassov, convenor of the ILS Education Programme, lamenting how ILS has often been viewed as a niche product reserved for sophisticated markets or large financial institutions. “For developing countries ILS instruments such as sovereign parametric catastrophe bonds, are often […]