As PwC released its sixteenth Global Insurance Run-Off Survey report today, we took a look at what the legacy reinsurance sector is saying about the growing use of alternative capital in the space, as well as how legacy solutions are now serving insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and investors as well.
Speaking at global reinsurer SCOR’s briefing at RVS 2025 in Monte Carlo, Jean-Paul Conoscente, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SCOR Global P&C, said that the firm will continue to sponsor catastrophe bond issuances regardless of the market cycle. In April, SCOR sponsored its twentieth cat bond, the $240 million Atlas Capital
Speaking today at a briefing held in Monte Carlo at the Rendez-vous event, Angela Yeo, Senior Director, Analytics at global ratings agency AM Best has highlighted how investors’ appetite for catastrophe bonds has helped the space continue to grow. With third-party capital deployed in reinsurance anticipated to grow by almost
For the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset management sector, operational capabilities are going to be key, while the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) means it must be considered, Dr. Urs Ramseier, CEO of Twelve Securis told Artemis in an interview just before the Monte Carlo Rendez-vous event. Twelve Securis, being
Speaking in Monte Carlo today at a S&P Global Ratings briefing during the annual reinsurance event, Maren Josefs, Credit Analyst at S&P Global, said it may be time to rethink the name alternative capital, as it was really always designed to complement the traditional reinsurance market and in recent years
Speaking today at a briefing held in Monte Carlo at the Rendez-vous event, Fitch Ratings analysts said the expectation is that property catastrophe reinsurance rates will keep softening and attachments may decline somewhat, but through this they anticipate discipline from the ILS investor base. The Fitch Ratings analysts are anticipating
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has reached a healthier equilibrium, but it is essential to preserve the balance between ensuring cedents are robustly supported and investors are appropriately awarded for putting their capital at risk, Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners told Artemis. Speaking to Artemis around the 2025
Swiss Re has highlighted the capital efficiency that a modern and layered risk transfer architecture brings to the property and casualty insurance market, seeing the capital markets and investors as now key elements in a chain that is supporting growing volumes of global risks. In a new sigma report released
Caribbean nations must stop defaulting to adding more debt as the answer after every disaster shock, instead layering the full range of risk transfer and financing tools to enhance liquidity following events and ensure timely, responsive capital flow, according to comments made by the Governor of the Central Bank of