Archive for July, 2025

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has increased its insurance industry loss estimate for extratropical windstorm “Éowyn”, a storm that impacted the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Central Belt of Scotland in early 2025, adding 7% to take the estimate to EUR 747 million.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending July 27th 2025, 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.

Insurance industry losses from the wildfires that impacted the Municipality of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada between July 22 and August 17, 2024 are estimated to have reached CAD $1.31 billion, according to CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure indices provider.

Two new companies have been registered in Bermuda that use the name Radix Re, Artemis has learned, a non-life underwriting entity and a holding company structure. We suspect these entities may be for Radix Insurance Linked Strategies (Radix ILS), the Bermuda-based third-party capital manager and reinsurance capacity deployment company.

Broking giant Aon has reported that its organic revenue generated from insurance-linked securities (ILS) placements grew by double-digits in the second-quarter of 2025.

According to a new report authored by Tom Johansmeyer, Global Head of Index Classes, at broker Price Forbes Re, addressing the need for liquidity is starting to make an impact towards the various constraints that currently stand that are limiting the rapid adoption of cyber catastrophe bonds.

The executive leadership of Bermuda headquartered reinsurer RenaissanceRe have explained during an earnings call that the company has already recaptured most of the third-party reinsurance capital management fee income that had been deferred after the California wildfire loss activity experienced earlier in 2025.

Leadenhall Capital Partners, the London headquartered specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager, has hired Brian Hickey as a Senior Managing Director, within its Business Development team, bringing onboard another specialist in capital formation and investor relations for alternative investments.

Today it is our pleasure to reveal another wave of expert speakers set to appear at our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, Artemis London 2025. Held in London on September 2nd, the event will feature a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking. Register to attend here.

Speaking during a second-quarter earnings call today, Kevin O’Donnell, CEO of Bermuda based underwriter and third-party reinsurance capital manager RenaissanceRe, said that he doesn’t see issues with capital wanting to enter the sector regardless of return.