ILS complementary for transferring, funding risks of large infrastructure projects: Singapore’s MAS
Insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe bonds are seen as a complementary mechanism to help provide the necessary capital to transfer and fund the risks of large infrastructure projects in Asia, according to Lim Cheng Khai of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Speaking at International Association of Engineering Insurers annual conference in Singapore earlier today, […]
Moody’s launches Risk InvestorIQ to support ILS transaction and portfolio evaluation
Moody’s has launched Risk InvestorIQ, a dedicated catastrophe risk analytics and portfolio management application to provide ILS investors and risk professionals with an environment to evaluate transactions and gauge their portfolio impact. The launch comes as the insurance-linked securities (ILS) continues to grow at a rapid pace, fuelled by catastrophe bond issuance outstanding for this year […]
Casualty sidecars require discipline on both sides as asset risk grows: Ledger
As asset-driven sidecars expand in the casualty market, focus is shifting from capital efficiency to risk management. Given this, Ledger Investing indicates that turning collateral into a second source of return requires market participants to underwrite the supporting asset portfolio with the same discipline as the liabilities. The insurtech and casualty ILS specialist shared these […]
Property reinsurance investing offers more manageable tail risk than perceived: Agecroft
While property reinsurance and insurance-linked investment strategies are often viewed as carrying significant tail risk, Agecroft Partners believes that carefully constructed portfolios and disciplined underwriting can help to manage downside volatility more effectively than headline risk profiles may suggest. Don Steinbrugge, Founder and CEO of Agecroft Partners, the hedge fund consulting and marketing specialist, recently […]
Institutional capital now core market infrastructure, as value chain unbundles: Aon
Institutional capital has matured into a structural component of global reinsurance infrastructure, accounting for nearly a fifth of total global reinsurance capital market capacity in the first-half of 2026 as the traditional underwriting value chain continues to unbundle, according to broker Aon. In a recent article, the broker highlights that advancing data analytics and flexible […]
Hong Kong targets PCC structure for efficient ILS issuance, wants to invigorate ILS investment
Hong Kong’s new five-year plan highlights insurance-linked securities business and the ongoing development of its ILS regulatory regime as key strategic goals, with a PCC structure being explored for more cost-efficient ILS and catastrophe bond issuance, as well as ways to invigorate the investor side as well. The inaugural Five-Year Plan of the Hong Kong […]
Cat 5 Florida hurricanes could drive $300bn plus insurance market loss: Swiss Re
Under certain scenarios, a category 5 hurricane ploughing into Miami or Tampa Bay has the potential to drive more than US $300 billion of losses across the global insurance and reinsurance market, Swiss Re’s Institute said today, while also explaining the importance of reinsurance and ILS capital in protecting the state. In addition, the research […]
ILS offers diversification when traditional stock/bond relationships falter: Omnigence Asset Management
Given insurance-linked securities’ (ILS) ability to offer a bounded allocation whose premium compensates for real and imperfectly correlated tail risk, a new paper by Omnigence Asset Management suggests that ILS remains one of the most credible candidates for diversification when traditional stock-bond relationships falter. In the firm’s recently published report, executives outlined that the diversifying leg […]
Capital markets, ILS well-structured to absorb data centre nat cat risks: Howden
The global data centre build-out is creating unprecedented risk concentrations in natural disaster zones, and pushing traditional insurance capacity to its limits. Howden sees this as a prime opportunity for the capital markets, as catastrophe peak risk remains the foundations of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class. According to Howden’s new report, in the US, […]
28% of reinsurance buyers expect to increase alternative capital use in 2027: Moody’s
For the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, one of the most promising findings of Moody’s Ratings annual survey of reinsurance buyers is that 28% of respondents said they anticipate increased use of alternative capital sources in 2027. At a time when the ILS market has grown strongly and catastrophe bond issuance has soared, while the routes […]