The California FAIR Plan, having recently come to market to sponsor its debut wildfire catastrophe bond and secured $750 million of reinsurance from the Golden Bear Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, has now commented on the deal to say that the cat bond “augments” its robust reinsurance program arrangements.
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Catastrophe bond market insurance risk spreads, or the discount margin, increased by roughly 6% in the month of December 2025, as spread widening returned to more seasonal norms lifting the overall yield of the catastrophe bond market to 8.80%.
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There is just one month to go until our upcoming ILS NYC 2026 insurance-linked securities conference and today we have revealed the topics for each of the panel sessions. Please register soon to guarantee your place at the conference, as tickets continue to sell ahead of prior year’s.
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As per broker Guy Carpenter’s 1/1 reinsurance renewals report, there was a notable rise in demand for property retrocession lines during the January renewals, with the company noting that ongoing growth in supply contributed to some price reductions and broader coverage.
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Aetna, the health, medical and benefits insurance unit of CVS Health, has returned to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market seeking $250 million of health care related reinsurance from a Vitality Re XVII Ltd (Series 2026) deal, which will become its seventeenth deal in the Vitality Re series.
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MS Amlin has now confirmed the expansion of its Phoenix Re securitized sidecar vehicle, lifting it to $115 million for the 2026 underwriting year, as the company continues with the insurance-linked securities strategy into its now sixth year.
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Australian primary insurance group IAG has renewed its main catastrophe reinsurance tower for 2026 at the same size as the prior year providing occurrence protection for two events of up to $10 billion, while also expanding its quota share reinsurance to now cover 25% of its consolidated business including the recently acquired RACQ Insurance.
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Leadenhall Capital Partners, the London headquartered specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager, has expanded its Partnership to thirteen by admitting two long-standing employees, Yuko Hoshino and Anthony Mensa Bonsu.
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The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector gained 0.81% on average for November 2025, lifting the group of cat bond and ILS funds tracked by the ILS Advisers Fund Index to an average 11-month return of 10.40%.
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Ascot Group, the specialist global re/insurance underwriter, has appointed Ashleigh Edwards as Group Head of Ceded Reinsurance, where she will oversee the firm’s global ceded reinsurance strategy and harmonize it with Leadline Capital Partners, the company’s third-party capital management platform.
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The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures has continued to grow at pace thanks to investor interest in the structures, with the latest estimate from Aon Securities putting invested capital in sidecar vehicles at a new high of $19.6 billion.
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Alternative reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities and related collateralized structures, reached a new high of $124 billion as of September 30th 2025, according to Aon and the broker expects the growth trend to persist as third-party investors show “consistent” appetite for returns from the sector.
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The latest data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices shows that the entire group averaged a 9.99% return for the latest available twelve month period, while the lower and higher-risk cohorts of UCITS cat bond funds each averaged a 10.02% return.
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Insurance Capital Markets Research (ICMR) has announced that its (Re)Insurance Specialty Index (RISX) delivered a 22.3% net total return in 2025, while the organisation has also forecasted that the Lloyds of London re/insurance market could deliver a return on capital of around 20% again for full-year 2025.
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