Best of Artemis, week ending July 19th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending July 19th 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 July 19th 2026:

1. Fermat Capital Management hits $11bn in cat bond and ILS assets under management
   Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has reached another high point in terms of its cat bond and ILS assets under management, surpassing the $11 billion milestone recently.
2. Kilter and Blue Owl capitalise new Accelerant Risk Exchange reciprocal insurer WoodStar
   A new insurer has been launched supported by third-party capital from investors and asset managers KKR-backed Kilter Finance and Blue Owl Capital, with newly rated WoodStar Reciprocal Exchange set to provide dedicated underwriting capacity through the Accelerant Risk Exchange.
3. World Bank starts work on up to $190m Nepal parametric quake catastrophe bond project
   The World Bank has begun work on a proposed project to deliver a parametric earthquake catastrophe bond for Nepal, targeting US $80 million to US $190 million of fully-collateralized disaster risk financing from the capital markets for the South Asian country.
4. Reinsurance sidecars remain key in 2026, as third-party capital deployment holds stable: Aon Securities
   Reinsurance sidecars remain a key theme in 2026, with third-party capital deployment holding broadly stable despite a rapidly evolving landscape of perils and structures, according to Aon Securities, the broker-dealer and investment banking arm of the broking firm.
5. Catastrophe bond market records that were set in Q2 2026
   The catastrophe bond market reached new heights in terms of issuance and activity levels in the second-quarter of 2026, with a number of important records being set as cat bond sponsors and investors continued to show growing commitment to the space.
6. Cat loss retro rates fall up to 20% at mid-year renewals for loss-free accounts: Gallagher Re
   Market conditions remained generally favourable for buyers of non-marine retrocession at the July renewals, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, who highlights in its latest 1st View report, that catastrophe rates fell by up to 20% for loss free accounts.
7. Ledger Investing reports continued demand for casualty ILS amid softening property cat market
   Against the softening property catastrophe market, casualty remains the most focal alternative within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, but also the hardest to successfully close, according to Ledger Investing, who reports that while capital is actively seeking diversification, casualty rate adequacy remains intact, and the market is working deliberately to standardise.
8. Unlocking capital markets to close the protection gap demands standardised infrastructure: Montauk Point’s Michel
   As the global protection gap continues to widen, closing it is no longer a question of mobilising more capital, it is a matter of engineering entirely new markets, Gero Michel, Chief Risk & Analytics Officer at Montauk Point Ltd., argues.
9. Insurance capacity constraints for data centres to drive ILS use: S&P
   With capacity constraints likely to limit the insurance industry’s ability to fully insure hyperscale data centre projects, given their scale and complexity, a new report from S&P notes that this will drive greater use of self-insurance through captive insurers, and potentially, alternative capital such as insurance-linked securities (ILS).
10. Existing cyber cat bonds structured to withstand Claude Mythos turbulence: Man Group
    As Anthropic’s advanced AI model, Claude Mythos, continues to generate significant noise across the cyber sector, investment manager Man Group notes that the per-occurrence structures and high attachment points of existing cyber catastrophe bonds should provide meaningful insulation from future turbulence, for when more advanced AI models eventually become widely available.

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 26 new articles published in the last week.

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