Archive for July, 2025

The Japan branch of HDI Global SE, part of Germany-based insurer Talanx AG, in collaboration with Descartes Underwriting, the parametric risk transfer specialist, has received authorisation from the Japanese Financial Services Agency to introduce parametric earthquake insurance coverage to the Japanese market.

Siena Capital Group, LLC has announced that it has appointed Mathys Baldacchino as Director of Research and Development, as the firm continues to expand its leadership team since its establishment earlier this year.

Insured losses from US hurricanes could rise by nearly 50% if global temperatures rise by 2°C, according to a recent study by MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global insurer and reinsurer.

Kaith Re Ltd., the transformer vehicle owned and operated by global reinsurance firm Hannover Re, has issued a new private catastrophe bond arrangement, with a $19.05 million tranche of Seaside Re (Series 2025-61) notes issued and privately placed with investors, Artemis has learned.

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Swiss Re, the global reinsurer, has now secured its targeted $65 million in North American earthquake and named storm retrocession from its latest catastrophe bond, as the new Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2025-2) issuance has been priced at the low-end of initial guidance.

Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has benefited from meaningful and consistent inflows to its UCITS catastrophe bond fund strategy this year, growing the funds AUM by 182% to reach almost $2.12 billion as of this week.

With the recent completion of the eleventh transaction under the Gateway Re series of catastrophe bonds, SageSure now stands at seventh in the Artemis catastrophe bond sponsor leaderboard, something the firm’s CEO Terence McLean hailed in an announcement today.

The market for aggregate reinsurance coverage remains “fraught” with a wide gap between bid and ask, Greg Hendrick, President and CEO of Vantage Risk has explained, but his firm still finds opportunity in that area of coverage, deploying capital through its AdVantage collateralized insurer class of company in 2025.

Total insured losses from catastrophe events in the first half of 2025 could reach as high as $90 billion, which would make it the second-highest first half on record, according to an estimate from analysts at Jefferies.