The third-party reinsurance capital platform of Bermuda headquartered re/insurer Vantage Risk, recently acquired by the Bill Ackman linked Howard Hughes Holdings, generated $23 million of fee income from its insurance-linked securities style partnerships with investors in the second-quarter of 2026.
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US insurer Progressive has renewed its per-occurrence property catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance program to provide it with $2.19 billion of limits for first events affecting Florida and $1.85 billion of coverage for first events impacting other states, at the June 1 renewals.
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The Swiss Re Institute has estimated that global insured losses from natural catastrophe events reached US $42 billion in the first half of 2026, marking the lowest first-half total recorded since 2020, and 16% below the 10-year average.
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With just a few weeks until our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, we have added three more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website today. You must register soon to attend and join us on September 1st, for a full-day of in-depth ILS market discussion and valuable networking.
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Seasonal tightening of catastrophe bond spreads accelerated in the month of July 2026, resulting in the catastrophe bond market yield or coupon available to investors declining to 9.29% by the end of the month, according to the latest data on cat bond yields from Plenum Investments.
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While White Mountains elected not to invest capital into the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, which supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark, for the 2026 underwriting year, the vehicle continues to serve as a major driver of cash flow, returning substantial capital to the firm throughout 2026 so far.
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As reinsurance sidecars increasingly expand into longer-tailed lines of business, the risk profile of these structures is shifting from traditional underwriting toward asset-side management. According to executives at financial and risk advisory firm Kroll, navigating this momentum requires strict asset-liability matching, robust valuation methodologies, and a deep understanding of complex collateral mechanics.
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Hiscox Capital Partners, the division of Hiscox Re that encompasses insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments and quota-share partnerships, has appointed Charalambos (Harry) Spanos as a Senior ILS Actuary.
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Catastrophe bond fund strategies in the UCITS format saw performance accelerate through recent weeks as seasonality boosted returns, but the 12-month rolling return average across the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices has now declined to just under 10% for the first time this year.
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The global reinsurance market is at an inflection point after consecutive strong year’s of underwriting returns have driven robust capital generation, while inflows continue to grow the insurance-linked securities market and alternative forms of capacity, which leads AM Best to call this an inflection point and ask if pricing discipline will last.
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Third-party capital in reinsurance, deployed through alternative capital vehicles, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, is projected to grow roughly 6% over the course of this year, to end 2026 around a record $130 billion level, according to the latest data from AM Best and Guy Carpenter.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 9th 2026, 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.
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Twelve Securis is combining its catastrophe bond and private ILS focused investment teams, to consolidate and optimise its approach to managing dedicated strategies and blended portfolios, while at the same time the firm also stated that long-standing senior employee Etienne Schwartz is departing the firm.
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A new report from analysts at J.P. Morgan has suggested that while the catastrophe bond market has witnessed exceptional growth in 2026, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative capital are looking more disciplined, exhibiting few of the undisciplined behaviours witnessed in the last soft market.
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