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Sidecars sweeping up casualty ILS: Artex
13 June 2025   Market meeting sizable third-party investor demand, despite property cat bond bonanza.

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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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Hannover Re’s recent cyber ILS deal, using a proportional reinsurance structure to transfer cyber risk to capital markets investors, could become a template for further deals and help insurers to cope with burgeoning demand, says Henning Ludolphs of Hannover Re.
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As demand for cyber insurance grows, capital markets investors can meet capacity needs thanks to the development of innovative cyber ILS structures, as Beazley has now demonstrated. Paul Bantick, global head of cyber risks, Beazley, spoke to Intelligent Insurer.
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Two cyber ILS deals were launched in January in a watershed moment for the market. Here, a panel of experts debate what this new source of capacity for cyber risks could mean for this line of business and end policyholders.
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9 May 2025   Limit hiked in Southeast; retentions up; Citrus Re cat bonds support to the tune of $535m.
8 May 2025   A mix of treaty & ILS covers the global cat book starting near 1-in-4 loss levels.
7 May 2025   Yet parent company AXA puts reinsurance in neutral, preferring ILS and sidecars.
7 May 2025   Bermuda-based underwriter brings 18 years’ experience across reinsurance, ILS space.
1 May 2025   The reinsurer has hired a leading ILS lawyer as its head of legal.
29 April 2025   Expects to write $500m plus in premiums by end-2025.
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