Best of Artemis, week ending February 1st 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending February 1st 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 February 1st 2026:

1. Eberhardt takes on Hannover Re Capital Partners CEO role. Horstmann a Director
   With global reinsurance firm Hannover Re now having licensed its new insurance-linked securities (ILS) operation Hannover Re Capital Partners (HCP) in Bermuda, the company has revealed that Bermuda P&C leader Michael Eberhardt takes on the CEO position while Head of ILS Patrick Horstmann is a Director of the new unit.
2. U.S. winter storm could contribute to aggregate erosion for certain cat bonds: Twelve Securis
   The ongoing winter storm event and freezing temperatures that are affecting tens of millions of people across the United States have the potential to contribute to the gradual erosion of aggregate limits in certain catastrophe bonds, investment manager Twelve Securis has highlighted.
3. Leadenhall Capital Partners expands AUM to $5.72bn, growing across ILS strategies
   Leadenhall Capital Partners, the London headquartered specialist insurance linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance related investments manager, has experienced particularly strong inflows of new capital across all its ILS fund strategies, growing its assets under management (AUM) to $5.72 billion by the end of 2025.
4. Collateralized insurer uptake lifts Bermuda cat bond, ILS registrations in 2025
   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.
5. Cat bond funds return 10.1%, private ILS 12.47% in 2025. Dispersion high: ILS Advisers
   The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector finished 2025 on strong footing with December seeing the third-highest returns for that month on record, as both catastrophe bond funds and strategies allocating to private ILS finished the full-year with averaged double-digit returns, the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows.
6. Property cat reinsurance softening to continue into April, June and July renewals, says Fitch
   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.
7. Securitization critical to meet data centre opportunity risk capital needs: Guy Carpenter CEO Klisura
   In order for the global insurance and reinsurance industry to meet the significant risk capital needs of the AI infrastructure and data centre build-out opportunity, securitization and third-party capital are going to be critical, Dean Klisura, CEO of Guy Carpenter said.
8. Franklin Templeton moderates cat bond conviction to overweight, remains neutral on other ILS
   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.
9. Third-party capital permanent, increasingly important beyond cat: Flandro, Howden Re
   David Flandro of reinsurance broker Howden Re expects alternative, or third-party capital’s important role in the catastrophe space, and increasingly in casualty / specialty lines, to continue.
10. KCC hires former Weston CEO Deanne Nixon as Senior Vice President
    Catastrophe risk modeling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Deanne Nixon as Senior Vice President, who joins the firm from global climate risk coverage platform Arbol.

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 32 new articles published in the last week.

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