Hong Kong’s ILS market needs buy in from local investors, Peak Re says

‘The onus is on all of us’: Hong Kong’s ILS market needs buy in from local investors, Peak Re says

March 31 2026
by Aidan Gregory

Hong Kong has work to do to drum up more interest from locally based investors in the territory’s growing catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, according to Peak Re.
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Hong Kong’s ILS market needs buy in from local investors, Peak Re says

‘The onus is on all of us’: Hong Kong’s ILS market needs buy in from local investors, Peak Re says

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