While catastrophe bond yields have declined from the highs seen between 2022 and 2024, analysts at Morningstar DBRS expect demand for the asset class to remain strong. Saying that, despite recent yield compression, the market continues to offer equity-like returns that are largely uncorrelated to traditional stock and bond markets.
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Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has now finalised its reinsurance risk transfer tower of almost $2.82 billion for 2026, securing $691 million of traditional reinsurance at the June 1 renewals, to add to its $2.125 billion of outstanding catastrophe bond protection.
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With the first half of 2026 another remarkable period for catastrophe bond issuance, but the market remaining heavily concentrated on North American peak risks, a recent report by Icosa Investments AG has highlighted how diversifiers and normalised valuations between industry-loss-linked and indemnity structures is opening up additional relative-value opportunities.
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Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), the reinsurance arm of the insurance group, and Safehub, a provider of seismic sensor and risk management technology, have partnered to provide the Mexican federal government with a new nationwide parametric earthquake and volcanic risk insurance solution.
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Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies Inc. is the new name for the global reinsurance firm’s dedicated insurance-linked securities investment management business, as Swiss Re looks to provide a clearer representation of the value proposition of this unit.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending June 21st 2026, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.
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Swiss Re, the global reinsurer, is launching a new Alternative Capital Solutions unit to encompass its activities in insurance-linked securities and retrocessional hedging and execution, with long-standing senior employee Mirjam Wiget set to lead the team.
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We’ve learned that Mercury General Corporation’s (Mercury Insurance’s) new Luca Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond issuance has seen its price guidance range now fall for a third time, with the company looking set for strong execution for its second 144A cat bond deal.
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Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has returned to the catastrophe bond market for its third sponsorship of the year, with an initial target to secure $275 million of broad North American peak peril retrocessional protection through a Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-3) offering, this publication has learned.
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Arch Capital Group has now successfully upsized its latest catastrophe bond sponsorship, securing $150 million of property catastrophe retrocession for peak North American perils from the Ramble Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, while the spreads settled at the low-end of reduced guidance, Artemis can report.
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Achmea, the Netherlands headquartered European insurance group, has now secured a one-third upsized €100 million source of collateralized European windstorm reinsurance from its new Windmill III Re DAC (2026-1) catastrophe bond, pricing the notes below the initial guidance, Artemis has learned.
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Nectaris Re Ltd., the rated reinsurance platform backed by ILS manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP, is targeted to receive its first catastrophe bond protection, through a currently $60 million Arthur Re Ltd. – Tranquil Re 2026-1 issuance, Artemis can report.
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Insurance industry losses from severe convective storms in the United States have now topped $22 billion as of June 18th, according to Gallagher Re. While this already makes 2026 the 11th consecutive year with annual US SCS insured losses of more than $20 billion, the tally so far is below the 5-year and 10-year H1 […]
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US primary insurer Allstate has reported a relatively low month of catastrophe losses for May 2026, announcing $289 million pre-tax. This represents a 63% decrease from the prior year, and when combined with April’s losses, this brings Allstate’s total pre-tax catastrophe losses for April and May 2026 to $1.16 billion.
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