Registration of new collateralized insurer class of companies in Bermuda soared to its highest level ever in 2025, helping lift catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security (ILS) related registrations above the prior year, while new cat bond issuance structures also rose compared to 2024.
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2025 saw a long-standing pattern reverse within the catastrophe bond market, as diversifying risks began offering spreads comparable or higher than those of traditional peak perils, while valuations between index-linked and indemnity structures normalised, Florian Steiger, CEO of Icosa Investments AG highlighted in a recent report.
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Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, the hedge fund-focused arm of the global asset manager, has moderated its stance on catastrophe bonds from ‘strongly overweight’ to ‘overweight’. Despite this shift, the manager maintains that the asset class remains attractive.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has issued its fourth and final industry loss estimate for Windstorm Éowyn, which affected the British Isles during the period of January 24th – 25th 2025, putting the insured market loss at €765 million.
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With property catastrophe reinsurance rates significantly softening at the January 2026 renewals, rating agency Fitch forecasts that further softening will continue into the April, June, and July renewals later this year.
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Hannover Re’s Bermuda-domiciled transformer vehicle Kaith Re Ltd. has issued $75 million of Seaside Re private catastrophe bond notes across seven numbered series, with all exposed to US property catastrophe risks, providing reinsurance or retrocession for an unknown sponsor or sponsors.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending January 25th 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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Despite a decrease in spread multiples, the private insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to remain attractive both in absolute terms and in comparison, to the catastrophe bond market, Stephan Ruoff from Schroders Capital told Artemis.
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Aetna, the health, medical and benefits insurance unit of CVS Health, has now secured the targeted $250 million of health care related reinsurance from its new Vitality Re XVII Ltd (Series 2026) catastrophe bond, pricing all three tranches at the top of initial guidance or above.
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New data released by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) shows that the total cost of extreme weather events that impacted Australia throughout 2025 resulted in almost $3.5 billion in insured losses, stemming from 264,000 claims.
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Both underwriting and capital discipline must be functions of the strategic playbook of the ILS industry, according to Aditya Dutt, President of Aeolus Capital Management, who says a key shift in insurance-linked securities is increasing care being taken to manage capital appropriately for investors.
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With Fidelis Insurance Group having recently settled its eighth Herbie Re catastrophe bond issuance, Ian Houston, Chief Underwriting Officer explained that the transaction delivers “substantial capital efficiency” and provides broad protection to The Fidelis Partnership MGU businesses as well.
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Descartes Underwriting, a specialist underwriter of parametric risk transfer opportunities, has unveiled a new parametric product suite for data centres, providing flexible capacity of up to $140 million per policy against natural perils that threaten timely completion of construction, commissioning, and ongoing service delivery.
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Integral ILS Ltd., an independent alternative investment manager focused on natural catastrophe insurance and reinsurance investments, has experienced strong growth in assets under management over the last year, starting January 2026 with $3.5 billion in committed AUM.
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