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24 July 2026 Private capital piles in as insurers of last resort cut back on exposure.
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Experts advise climate-vulnerable nations to look beyond expensive, low-frequency cat bonds.
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Fermat, Plenum lead early ILS defence as illiquid asset fears rise.
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AI-powered risk modelling could help create new, innovative structures in the ILS space.
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Investors lean into higher-risk returns, paving the way for more choice among buyers.
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A multi-year rally for catastrophe bonds with accompanying flurry of issuance may have begun to spill over into growth for reinsurance sidecars and parallel collateralised ILS spaces as pricing disparity tempts investors back into the related sub-classes.
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The evolving role of insurance-linked securities (ILS) in reinsurance is now a matter of strategic foresight rather than tactical necessity. Acrisure Re managing director of catastrophe bond solutions believes the ILS market today is better than it was 10 to 15 years ago.
Alternative Risk Transfer
The risk transfer industry needs more capital—but ILS investors are interested only if returns reach more attractive levels that meet or exceed long-term target returns for risk assets, Dirk Lohmann, chairman of Schroders Capital ILS, told Intelligent Insurer.
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Swiss Re’s recent innovative ILS deal, completed with JP Morgan and designed to help the reinsurer manage its capital, has the potential to grow the sector exponentially, says one of the industry’s pioneers Dirk Lohmann.
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2 July 2026 Cedants keep shifting protection, upping cat bond weighting in programmes.
1 July 2026 New casualty ILS joins the capital wave as reinsurers split winners from losers.
29 June 2026 Broker says abundant ILS capital has taken the lead, reshaping property-cat pricing.
25 June 2026 Softening property cat reinsurance could see it recoup lost structures.
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