An ILS focused panel at PwC’s Insurance Summit in Bermuda this week underlined how the market is entering a new phase. After three decades of growth in property catastrophe, investors and market participants are looking toward specialty, casualty and cyber risks, and asking what infrastructure will be needed to make that expansion work.
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VIG Re, the reinsurance arm of Vienna Insurance Group, has now successfully priced its debut catastrophe bond, securing an upsized €60 million of fully-collateralized European windstorm retrocession from the Charles Bridge Re 2026 DAC issuance with the spread finalised at the low-end of reduced price guidance, Artemis understands.
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Cortina has raised a lot of questions in the market, as to whether the recently launched Aon structured and Blackstone backed reinsurance facility at Lloyd’s is simply the latest iteration of a soft market trend and evolution of following, tracker style capacity, or something more portending of future market developments.
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Through the recent period of brisk issuance the catastrophe bond market has been expanding rapidly, with now 20% more cat bond deals available to investors than a year ago, analysis from specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities investment manager Euler ILS Partners shows.
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The California Earthquake Authority’s (CEA) new Ursa Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond remains at the upsized $900 million target, but pricing has been lowered again for the notes on offer, as the company targets strong execution with its latest cat bond deal, Artemis understands.
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SafePoint continues to target $100 million of annual aggregate and industry-loss index triggered named storm protection through its Arthur Re Ltd. – Nature Coast Re 2026-3 catastrophe bond deal, but we’re told the price guidance for the notes on offer has moved towards the upper-end of the initial range.
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Global reinsurer Munich Re has posted a lower net result of €1.742 billion for the third quarter of 2026, and a higher result of €5.667 billion for the first nine months of the year, while the firm’s P&C reinsurance arm saw a notable year-on-year decline as a result of currency and renewal effects.
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German domestic market insurance group VKB is now aiming to upsize its latest catastrophe bond deal, raising the target size to secure a slightly larger €200 million of German multi-peril reinsurance protection from the King Max Re II DAC (Series 2026-1) issuance, this publication has learned.
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A new report from Evercore ISI has outlined that the recently announced Aon and Blackstone reinsurance facility at Lloyd’s, Cortina, offers another alternative for third-party capital to be deployed into the reinsurance market without having to endure some of the exit risk mechanics.
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Montauk Point Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm that provides independent advisory and strategic advice to third-party risk capital providers, has announced that senior ILS specialist John Whiley has joined the firm, where he will focus on strengthening its ILS Advisory and Special Situations capabilities.
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A new article from Man Group has highlighted how the catastrophe bond market continues to offer effective pricing competition, multi-year cover against a range of perils, and an additional source of capacity. All of which leads the firm to call out that it believes the market is well placed for further growth, provided pricing remains […]
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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) is aiming to meaningfully upsize its latest catastrophe bond sponsorship, with the target for the issuance raised 50% to now $900 million of fully-collateralized earthquake reinsurance limit from the new Ursa Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) transaction, Artemis understands.
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Quantedge Capital, the Singapore-based hedge fund asset manager, recognises that consistency in terms of its capital deployment to the insurance-linked securities asset class is key, as it enables the firm to be there when losses hit and it can benefit from hardening prices, CEO Suhaimi Zainul-Abidin explained in a recent podcast interview.
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This video from our Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference in September sees a panel of experts discussing the topic of the day: where capital market investors can realistically participate in data centre risk through ILS structures.
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