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21 May 2026 Longer-tail risks are gaining attention in the ILS market, forcing a rethink of structure to maintain investor appetite.
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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.
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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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18 May 2026 Cat bonds run up and down the tower, including lower layers near FHCF state plan.
12 May 2026 Plenum’s performance index goes more than a year since showing a weekly decline.
7 May 2026 Cat bond funds take the vast bulk of the interest; fundraising pipeline remains ‘robust’.
7 May 2026 Artex CEO and Enstar MD, M&A, detail the drivers behind the collaboration, which offers exit solutions aimed at liquidity and investor opportunities.
29 April 2026 Fundraising proved very modest, RenRe stepped in to pick up bits of DaVinci and Fontana.
24 April 2026 Employing blockchain technology could open market to more investors.
24 April 2026 ILS manager claims fund first out of gate for bringing outside investors in.
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