Archive for July, 2026

The Colorado State University (CSU) tropical meteorology team has now further reduced its seasonal forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, citing the high-likelihood of a strong El Niño and the associated increase in vertical wind shear as the primary factor.

The Ambassador US mutual fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management that allocates to catastrophe bonds and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) that we believe to be largely ILW’s, has grown its assets under management further to reach almost $900 million as of this week.

Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) has raised its forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season slightly, now calling for one more hurricane and major hurricane to form, citing “indications that the sub-tropical Atlantic may provide more favourable conditions for tropical cyclones.”

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands-based reinsurance company, along with its subsidiary SurancePlus, has successfully closed five private placements of tokenized reinsurance securities on Solana blockchain, with total gross proceeds of combined offerings amounting to approximately $7.1 million.

Swiss Re has said that while the non-life insurance and reinsurance market has entered a softer phase of the underwriting cycle, it does not anticipate the depth of the downturn being as significant as we’ve seen in the past.

With the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) now having launched its awaited consultation on a Protect Cell Company (PCC) structure that will be suited to efficient insurance-linked securities issuance, collateralised reinsurance and sidecars, Regional Director George Ong of Aon has highlighted the opportunity this presents.

Porch Group, the US homeowners specialist insurer, is now targeting lower pricing for its debut catastrophe bond sponsorship, still aiming to secure $100 million in multi-peril collateralized catastrophe reinsurance through the Harbor Crest Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance but now at a lower spread, Artemis can report.

Hannover Re, the global reinsurance company, has facilitated issuance of a new $7.47 million private LI Re 2026-3 catastrophe bond using its Bermuda-domiciled transformer vehicle Kaith Re Ltd., with this new deal expected to support a collateralized, transformed and securitized reinsurance or retrocession arrangement.

Today we have added four more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website, our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.

According to a recent paper by catastrophe risk modeler Karen Clark & Company (KCC), while a long-term correlation exists between El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phases and insured property losses, the climate pattern holds relatively little predictive power for any single year.