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Alternative Capital Partners

A unified centre of expertise

Swiss Re has been a leader in Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) since the market's inception in 1997. We're committed to the development of a market for liquid, transparent and tradable insurance-linked risk products, leveraging our reinsurance and capital markets experience.
Our Alternative Capital Partners division combines the resources and capabilities of the Swiss Re Capital Markets ILS team, our retrocession team, and our investment management teams into a unified center of expertise that seamlessly offers our partners and Swiss Re itself, comprehensive alternative capital solutions tailored to their unique objectives.
Alternative Capital Partners serves a wide variety of clients, from cedant to investor, each looking to benefit from Swiss Re's experience in the market.

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Our clients can partner with us in three different ways:

1. Investment Management

The ACP team builds and fosters direct partnerships between pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, insurers, asset managers and other institutional investors and Swiss Re. We work with investors looking to benefit from our underwriting expertise, experience, and access to the (re)insurance and Insurance-Linked Securities ("ILS") markets. We offer a variety of investment strategies and other tailored solutions which appeal to different risk appetites and return targets. 

Find out more about Investment Management.

2. Catastrophe bond structuring and placement services

Through our strategically located broker/dealers, collectively Swiss Re Capital Markets, we provide structuring and placement services to clients looking to utilize the capital markets to transfer their risk in the form of catastrophe bonds and related products. Our clients, including (re)insurers, governments, corporations, and Swiss Re itself are provided with expertise in both the Property & Casualty (P&C) and Life & Health (L&H) risk markets. We work with investors who are interested in participating directly in the cat bond market, as well as providing secondary market trading, weekly and monthly indicative pricing and performance indices as part of our commitment to the market. 

Find out more about catastrophe bond structuring and placement services.

3. Retrocession

Our retrocession structuring teams (both P&C and L&H) are responsible for Swiss Re's retrocession and underwriting hedging programs. We work with a range of counterparties across traditional reinsurance and capital markets to transfer risk in various formats to our partners.  Our retrocession structuring teams (both P&C and L&H) are responsible for Swiss Re's retrocession and underwriting hedging programs. We work with a range of counterparties across traditional reinsurance and capital markets to transfer risk in various formats to our partners.  

Find out more about retrocession .

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This information herein is not intended for retail clients; it is only intended for eligible sophisticated investors or, in the case of persons based in the U.S., Institutional Investors. The information herein should not be construed as legal, tax or investment advice nor interpreted as recommending any investment in any particular product, instrument or security, and should not be relied on as the sole source of information upon which to base an investment decision. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, SRCM, SRILIM or SRILIAC is not acting as your financial adviser or fiduciary. The information contained in this website was obtained from sources believed to be reliable and any discussions reflect the views and judgment (including illustrations, estimates, opinions, forecasts and projections) of the party or parties that prepared it, as of the date hereof, and is subject to change. The website also includes illustrations, estimates and projections and involves significant elements of subjective judgment, assumptions and analysis. An investment in a fund, security or instrument involves substantial risks as described in the applicable offering documents. No representation is made as to the accuracy or completeness of such information or that all assumptions relating to them have been considered or stated or that such projections or returns will be realized. The returns or performance results may be lower than estimated herein; actual results may vary materially from projected results and past performance does not guarantee future results. ​

SRCM, SRILIM and SRILIAC are not authorized to arrange insurance or reinsurance products, and if any such solutions are required an appropriate entity within Swiss Re group would arrange or provide such products. Certain statements contained herein constitute “forward-looking statements.” These forward-looking statements are based upon certain assumptions which may not be stated herein and assumptions which are inherently uncertain and unpredictable. Actual events may differ from those assumed. All forward-looking statements included herein are based on information available on the date the statements are made and none of SRCM, SRILIM, SRILIAC or its respective affiliates assume any duty to update any forward-looking statement. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that estimated returns or projections can be realized, the forward-looking statements will materialize or that actual results will not be materially different than those presented.

 

[1] Registration with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training.