Best of Artemis, week ending June 7th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending June 7th 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 June 7th 2026:

1. Gothaer seeks €100m German flood reinsurance with debut Yardstick Re catastrophe bond
   Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherungs AG, a German insurance company, has entered the catastrophe bond market for its debut sponsorship, targeting €100 million or more in reinsurance limit to cover flood events in Germany with a Yardstick Re DAC (Series 2026-1) cat bond issuance.
2. Swiss Re names Martin Zingg to lead Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) as Minter to retire
   Swiss Re has appointed long-standing senior employee Martin Zingg as the new head of its Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) division, as incumbent to the role Chris Minter is set to retire from the global reinsurance company.
3. Accelerated softening, broader coverage terms help reinsurance buyers at June renewal: Howden Re
   Howden Re estimates that risk-adjusted property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line decreased by as much as 25% on a weighted-average basis at the June 1st renewals, while the broker also highlights greatly improved appetites for lower layers of Florida towers and broader coverage terms being secured for protection buyers.
4. Reinsurance, retro key to managing catastrophe risks under climate disaster stress tests: S&P
   A recent series of stress tests conducted by S&P Global Ratings on a number of different insurers and reinsurers, to see how they would withstand a 1-in-250-year catastrophe event has showcased the importance that both reinsurance and retrocession bring towards managing catastrophe risks.
5. Florida State Board likely to reduce property cat ILS investments, keep diversifying
   The Florida State Board of Administration, which manages allocations to insurance-linked securities funds and reinsurance strategies on behalf of the giant Florida Retirement System Pension Plan, has said it is likely to reduce its exposure to property catastrophe risk as expected mean loss returns have declined.
6. Cedar Trace hires Chris Wilson from Artex, strengthening insurance-linked securities team
   Cedar Trace, the Bermuda-based insurance, reinsurance, and asset management group, has announced the hiring of well-known industry executive Chris Wilson to its insurance-linked securities leadership, further strengthening its team and bringing meaningful operation experience in ILS.
7. PFZW allocation target rises for Mt. Logan strategy, shrinks for Munich Re & Swiss Re sidecars
   The target investment allocation range for the Mt. Logan Capital Management, Ltd. quota share structure named Scenery Re has been increased for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolio managed by PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager, on behalf of its end-client pension PFZW.
8. Earthquake models fail to factor in events driving two-thirds of recent industry losses: MS Amlin
   Catastrophe models have been called out as failing to account for so-called “supershear” earthquake events, with specialist Lloyd’s re/insurer MS Amlin stating that models “are failing to factor in a little-known class of earthquake despite it being linked to two thirds of industry losses from seismic events in the last decade.”
9. Market conditions suggest alternative capital will increase further: Guy Carpenter’s Rousseau
   As alternative capital continues to grow, it’s currently estimated share of 20% of the global re/insurance industry is largely an underestimation, according to Guy Carpenter’s Laurent Rousseau, who argues that current market conditions would suggest that it will increase further before it stabilises or shrinks.
10. California Earthquake Authority secures $425m reinsurance with Sutter Re 2026-1 cat bond
    The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has now successfully priced and secured its upsized target of $425 million of fully-collateralized earthquake reinsurance protection from its new Sutter Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond sponsorship.

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 38 new articles published in the last week.

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