Best of Artemis, week ending August 30th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 30th 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 30th 2026:

1. Marsh to bring alternative capital into data centre risks with $10bn Stratus exchange
   Marsh is aiming to bring alternative sources of insurance and reinsurance capital into the digital infrastructure risk transfer sector, through the launch of a $10 billion property insurance exchange named Stratus.
2. Alternative reinsurance capital and ILS market growth forecast for 2027: Fitch
   Fitch Ratings anticipates the growth of the alternative reinsurance capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market will continue in 2027, as risk-adjusted returns remain attractive to investors and sponsor demand for capacity remains high, despite the backdrop of reinsurance rate softening.
3. Beazley partnered with Integral ILS on new cyber ILS fund platform in Bermuda
   Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has partnered with specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager Integral ILS Ltd. to establish the awaited cyber ILS fund operation in Bermuda.
4. Traditional reinsurance capital build-up more impactful to softening than ILS: AM Best
   While the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has been growing at a strong pace, thanks in the main to record levels of catastrophe bond issuance, rating agency AM Best believes that while this contributed to reinsurance market softening, the deployment of traditional capacity is still more impactful.
5. Blackstone multi-strat alternatives fund makes its second direct cat bond investment
   Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the hedge fund solutions unit of Blackstone, has now made a second direct investment into a catastrophe bond through one of its flagship muti-strat alternatives funds.
6. Hurricane Lala triggers Hawaii’s parametric coral reef insurance
   The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Hawaiʻi parametric coral reef insurance policy will pay for damage assessment and reef repairs for the first time since it purchased the United States’ first such policy four years ago, following recent impacts from Hurricane Lala which brought dangerous flooding, strong winds and major power outages across the state.
7. RGA evaluating next reinsurance sidecar, as Ruby Re to be fully-deployed this year
   Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) expects to have its first third-party capitalised life reinsurance sidecar Ruby Re fully-deployed this year and the company is already evaluating a second iteration of the structure, an executive has said.
8. Wilton Re partners with Sun Life to launch Windsor Life Re, a life annuity sidecar-like reinsurer
   Wilton Re is partnering with Sun Life Financial Inc. to launch Windsor Life Re, a new U.S. and Bermuda based company that will initially act as a kind of life and annuity reinsurance sidecar for the company and is expected to deploy around US $900 million in capital.
9. UBS to marginally increase cat bond allocations, says remain attractive on relative basis
   In a volatile market environment when some hedge fund and alternative strategies have suffered, UBS Asset Management’s team sees catastrophe bonds as one asset class worth increasing allocations to, given it the carry they can provide remains relatively attractive compared to other investments in credit and fixed income.
10. BTG Pactual sets up SSPE (Brazil ILS structure) to issue Letras de Risco de Seguro (LRS)
    BTG Pactual has established an insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure named BTG Pactual Sociedade Seguradora de Propósito Específico S.A. (BTG Pactual SSPE) to issue Letras de Risco de Seguro (Insurance Risk Letters), Brazil’s own-brand of ILS instrument.

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 27 new articles published in the last week.

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