Archive for November, 2025

There are now attendees representing more than 110 organisations registered to join us in New York on February 6th 2026 for the tenth insurance-linked securities conference in the ILS NYC series. Early Bird tickets are running low for ILS NYC 2026, so to take advantage of what is the last discount available please register soon […]

Since the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its technical advice to the European Commission (EC) on the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD) and what that could mean for catastrophe bonds in UCITS funds, the Authority has been notably silent on the matter.

As momentum continues to build within the reinsurance sidecar market, these structures are increasingly viewed as an attractive capital sourcing opportunity for managing general agents (MGAs), and investment for ILS managers, hedge or pension funds, and family-office investors, according to Willis Re.

Insurance claims from recent days of severe storms and hail across Queensland and New South Wales in Australia are rising still, with this weather catastrophe set to be the most costly of the current financial year so far for the domestic market insurers.

Progressive, the US insurance company, is back in the catastrophe bond market seeking a $70 million or greater one-year source of annual aggregate and multi-peril reinsurance protection from the capital markets, through a Bonanza Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, Artemis understands.

The North Carolina Farm Bureau has now secured the 54% upsized $500 million of reinsurance limit from its new Blue Ridge Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, while pricing settled well below guidance for most of the tranches of notes on offer, Artemis has learned.

Blockchain-backed reinsurer Re has announced the deployment of $134 million in reinsurance capital across multiple programs as the industry begins to head into the key January renewals season.

Suncorp Group, the Australian primary insurance giant, looks set to make reinsurance recoveries to help it manage losses from the recent South East Queensland severe thunderstorms and hail, with the company saying the net cost is expected to be at its full reinsurance retention.

Beazley’s move to establish a new Bermuda operation is seen as “a strategic investment irrespective of the phase of the cycle” by analysts at Peel Hunt. They also highlight how this can increase access to third-party capital, in particular with the returns of the firm’s cyber underwriting expertise now set to become accessible to ILS […]

Pine Walk Capital Limited, the specialist managing general agent (MGA) platform and wholly owned subsidiary of The Fidelis Partnership, has launched Carnovis Specialty Limited as a new Alternative Risk Transfer MGA, that also has a remit to underwrite business for third-party capital providers, including from the capital markets.