Best of Artemis, week ending January 25th 2026

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.

Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending January 25th 2026:

1. Zurich – Beazley: A potential powerhouse in cyber, ILS and third-party capital use?
   Last week the news broke that global giant Zurich Insurance Group has made a number of proposals to acquire London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company Beazley and it’s worth considering what this could mean for cyber, ILS and the use of third-party capital by these firms.
2. Beazley rejects Zurich acquisition proposals, says undervalues its prospects as independent
   Beazley has announced this morning that its board has rejected the acquisition proposal from Zurich Insurance Group, saying that the offer “materially undervalues Beazley and its longer-term prospects as an independent company.”
3. Florida Retirement System Pension sees strong returns from ILS, allocation nears $2bn
   The Florida Retirement System Pension Plan, which is administered by the Florida State Board of Administration, has benefited from very strong performance across its allocations to insurance-linked securities funds, with its assets invested in ILS now approaching $2 billion.
4. Tangency Capital expands AUM to $3.6bn as ILS sector maintains relative appeal: Jedraszak
   Coming off a robust 2025, ILS investment manager Tangency Capital Ltd has expanded its AUM to $3.6 billion. However, while Co-Founder and CIO Michael Jedraszak remains cautious about maintaining the firm’s current growth trajectory amidst softening rates, he forecasts a steady flow of capital into the sector as long as the broader ILS space remains attractive to investors.
5. Travelers buys new $1bn catastrophe reinsurance lower layer at renewal to reduce retention
   Travelers has added an additional $1 billion lower layer to its catastrophe excess-of-loss (XoL) reinsurance treaty at the January 1st renewals, reducing the retention by an equivalent amount to $3 billion while securing $4.675 billion of coverage above that.
6. Global insured losses from natural disasters hit $127bn in 2025: Aon
   According to insurance and reinsurance broking group Aon, global insured losses from natural disaster events in 2025 reached $127 billion, marking the sixth consecutive year that insurance payouts have exceeded the $100 billion threshold.
7. García Ehrhardt confirms role at Hannover Re Capital Partners as Head of Capital & Underwriting
   Former Hiscox ILS executive Aaron García Ehrhardt has now confirmed his new role being as the Head of Capital & Underwriting at Hannover Re Capital Partners (HCP), the global reinsurance firm’s recently established Bermuda-based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform.
8. Underwriting and capital discipline – functions of the strategic ILS playbook: Aditya Dutt, Aeolus
   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.
9. 2025 – The year the original vision for catastrophe bonds was realised: Twelve Securis
   With surging issuance and demand from investors in 2025, it was the year that the original vision for what the catastrophe bond market could become was realised, as they cemented their position as core protection and became a truly established asset class, investment manager Twelve Securis has said.
10. Allstate returns with $500m target across Sanders Re III and Sanders Re IV cat bond issuances
    Allstate is back in the catastrophe bond market seeking $500 million of fully-collateralized multi-peril per-occurrence catastrophe reinsurance protection through dual issuances of Sanders Re IV Ltd. (Series 2026-1A) and Sanders Re III Ltd. (Series 2026-1B) cat bond series.

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 31 new articles published in the last week.

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