Best of Artemis, week ending August 16th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 16th 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.


Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending August 16th 2026:

1. Third-party reinsurance capital projected for 6% growth to $130bn in 2026: AM Best & GC
   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.
2. Reinsurance inflection – Key question is whether irrational competition emerges: AM Best
   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.
3. Global data centre insurance market projected to exceed $24bn by 2030: Allianz Commercial
   The global data centre insurance market is projected to grow from currently around US $11 billion to more than $24 billion by 2030, which comes as the market continues to drive an influx of infrastructure risks and opportunities, according to Allianz Commercial, the commercial insurance business of Allianz Group.
4. Sidecar evolution driven by asset-side mechanics and valuation discipline: Kroll
   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.
5. Vantage Partnership Capital (AdVantage) generated $23m of fee income in Q2 2026
   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.
6. AI to drive catastrophe bond expansion, including into data centre risks: Ethan Powell, Brookmont
   As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bond markets continue to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), the technology has the potential to help expand the market into new sectors like data centre risks, according to Ethan Powell, Principal and CIO of Brookmont Capital Management.
7. Twelve Securis combining cat bond and private ILS management teams, as Schwartz to depart
   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.
8. Hiscox Capital Partners hires Spanos as Senior ILS Actuary
   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.
9. August 9th – 11th US Midwest SCS outbreak may rank as a top-10 industry loss: Guy Carpenter
   Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorm activity that struck the Midwest of the United States earlier this month is seen as having the potential to result in a top-10 severe weather insurance industry loss event, which implies that the cost could be around $5.1 billion or higher to the market, according to broker Guy Carpenter.
10. White Mountains gets $222m capital return from Ark’s Outrigger Re sidecar
    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.

This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days. There were 30 new articles published in the last week.

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