Archive for October, 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.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC), has launched a new version of its US Severe Convective Storm (SCS) model, incorporating a range of advancements that further strengthens the firm’s approach to quantifying losses from one of the weather perils driving a significant share of insured property losses across the country.

Catastrophe bond insurance risk spreads declined by 9.5% during the month of September 2026 as wind seasonality took hold, but with treasury yields having risen the increase to the risk free rate of return on collateral served to offset the impact to the cat bond market coupon available to investors, the latest data on cat […]

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is projecting it will need to secure around $2.05 billion of reinsurance and catastrophe bonds for 2027, as it expects to require approximately 10% less protection than this year largely thanks to a building up of its Catastrophe Reserve Trust Fund.

The US National Hurricane Center’s latest forecast, for what remains tropical depression nine at this time, is for the developing system to become tropical storm Isaias later today, after which it is forecast to intensify into a hurricane and head towards a landfall on the Gulf Coast.

CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure index provider, has raised its insurance industry loss estimate for the severe thunderstorm event that impacted parts of southern Ontario and southern Quebec between June 30th and July 3rd, 2026, to CAD $491 million, a 12% increase from the firm’s second loss estimate of $439 million.

Arbol, the technology-led underwriter of parametric risk transfer, climate, and weather re/insurance business, has announced that it has launched an Innovation Unit, which is set to be led by Dr. Clement Atzberger, who has been appointed to the role of Chief Scientist.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) experts and leaders continue to see strong investor interest across the board, and with the total return of the cat bond market remaining attractive, appetite is deemed robust.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS as it is better known, is exploring ways to increase its exposure to insurance-linked securities, which are seen as one asset class that can contribute towards its goal to invest $100 billion in climate solutions by 2030, according to a Bloomberg report.

VisionFund, the financial inclusion arm of World Vision, working alongside with Global Parametrics and co-financed by the InsuResilience Solutions Fund, will design a two-peril parametric meso-insurance product for World Vision offices in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru, as part of the wider Amazon Basin Initiative.