Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
Another new 144A cat bond hit the market this week, as a sixth transaction in the Acorn Re parametric earthquake catastrophe bond series began marketing.
We reported that the average 2025 year-to-date return of UCITS catastrophe bond investment funds rose to 7.25% by September 26th.
We broke the news that CalPERS is making its first ever investment allocation to the insurance-linked securities sector, we understand in catastrophe bonds.
We were first to report that multi-strat credit alternatives specialist Arini Capital Management marked its entry into catastrophe bonds with the hiring of portfolio manager Shang-Wei Ye.
We also reported first that the newly launched Calamos Aksia Hedged Strategies Fund (HEDGX) interval fund has an allocation to the RenaissanceRe Medici catastrophe bond strategy.
In addition we revealed the Government Superannuation Fund Authority of New Zealand has added ILS specialist Elementum Advisors to its roster of managers this year.
In other stories this week, we learned that Aon and fronting specialist Clear Blue Insurance have reached an out of court settlement in relation to a lawsuit over the Vesttoo fraud.
We published the video of our private ILS session from the recent Artemis London 2025 conference.
Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners explained in an interview that increased participation of large institutional investors is a testament to the ILS market's credibility and scalability.
Shiv Kumar and Cory Anger of GC Securities told us that the firm aims to grow its business by expanding in catastrophe bonds, property sidecars, casualty ILS, multiline facilities, and surplus notes, while also putting a focus on artificial intelligence.
Pillar Capital Management Limited has promoted Kevin Ronaldson to the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM) has hired life ILS portfolio management specialist Antonio Pombeiro.
NormanMax has hired reinsurance and retro broking specialist Nick Griffiths to take on the role of Chief Revenue Officer.
Finally, if you haven't seen them, Artemis has a wealth of data and analytics on the catastrophe bond and broader ILS market. View our charts and Deal Directory.
Catch up on our video interviews with ILS market leaders here.
If you prefer to listen, subscribe to our podcast series for audio interviews & additional special episodes.
We'll be back next week with more regular coverage.
We hope you have a safe & relaxing weekend.
No comments:
Post a Comment