Archive for October, 2026

The U.S. life settlement market is poised for long-term expansion extending through 2035 as investor demand for low-correlated alternative assets converges with an aging population, growing retirement and long-term care funding needs, and broader direct-to-consumer awareness, a new study by investment management consultancy Conning has revealed.

US military mutual insurer USAA has returned to the catastrophe bond market to sponsor what will be the 48th cat bond that we have analysed and tracked from the company, with an initial target for $225 million or more in reinsurance from this Residential Reinsurance 2026 Limited (Series 2026-2) issuance, Artemis has learned.

The severe storm outbreak that impacted Southern Ontario, including Toronto, on September 2nd and 3rd, 2026, is estimated to have resulted in an insurance industry loss of CAD $563 million, according to CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure indices provider.

Our latest video features the second panel discussion of the day at our recent Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference, a session focused on catastrophe bonds and what the current state of the market means for investor, ILS investment manager and sponsor discipline.

Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform has partnered with Reask, the catastrophe modelling and climate analytics specialist, which will see Reask supply settlement data for its live hurricane contracts, enabling capital providers to enter and exit live catastrophe exposure in real time.

Higher short-term interest rates are providing an additional source of return for ILS, while also reshaping strategy-level return attribution across the hedge fund industry. As macroeconomic dynamics shift which management styles deliver relative performance, Don Steinbrugge, of Agecroft Partners, emphasises that the underlying source of an investment’s return now matters just as much as its […]

Isaiais is now the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season having intensified overnight and the forecast continues to suggest a Category 2 landfall on the Gulf Coast is a possible outcome, at which level of intensity reinsurance broker Gallagher Re said it would typically result in insured losses in the low to mid-single digit […]

We’ve learned that the new Great Wall Re Limited catastrophe bond issuance is $12 million in size, so presumably will provide an equivalent amount of capital markets backed reinsurance to the sponsoring Chinese domestic insurer, PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited.

Catastrophe bond funds structured in the UCITS format have now added more than $2.5 billion of assets in 2026 so far, with the sector nearing $21.8 billion of combined assets under management by the end of September 2026.

Life and health reinsurer Pacific Life Re, has ventured into the US longevity reinsurance market as the company has announced the successful execution of a $3 billion longevity reinsurance agreement with American National Insurance Company.