Strategic Risk Solutions, an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, suggests that casualty ILS will breakthrough when platforms offer dependable exit mechanisms providing investors entering longer-tail risk with greater certainty, by embedding capital finality from inception. The broader insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to evolve

Insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, saw returns accelerating in August 2026, as the average ILS fund performance reached 1.39% and cat bond funds had a particularly strong month, latest data from the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows. August 2026 now becomes the best-performing month of the

The current soft market in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) is not yet at the depressed levels seen in 2017, analysis from consultancy Lane Financial LLC shows. But the company suggests the soft cat bond market could last another year, if 2026 continues to run loss-free. In its last