Best of Artemis, week ending March 1st 2026

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

1. Munich Re slashes retrocession, scraps sidecars, shows ambition to retain reinsurance profits
   Munich Re has demonstrated the power of a large diversified reinsurance and insurance group in beating its profit target for 2025, while showing its desire to retain more of the economics of its re/insurance business by slashing its retrocession arrangements and scrapping its collateralized reinsurance sidecar programme.
2. Catastrophe bond issuance already projected at near $5.86bn in Q1 2026
   Catastrophe bond issuance is on track to make this first-quarter at least the second busiest start to any year on record, with Artemis’ Deal Directory data already projecting close to $5.86 billion of cat bond issuance for Q1 2026, only falling behind the total from last year at this stage.
3. Allstate secures $1.2bn reinsurance with new Sanders Re cat bonds, its largest placement ever
   Allstate has now successfully priced its new catastrophe bonds to provide the largest amount of reinsurance limit it has ever secured in a single visit to the market, with $1.2 billion of multi-peril reinsurance confirmed from the dual issuances of Sanders Re IV Ltd. (Series 2026-1A) and Sanders Re III Ltd. (Series 2026-1B) cat bond series.
4. Heritage returns with $250m target for new Citrus Re 2026-1 named storm cat bond
   Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., a nationally expansive US property and casualty insurer headquartered in Florida, is back in the catastrophe bond market again with an initial target to secure $250 million or more in collateralized US named storm reinsurance from a Citrus Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance.
5. Global property insurance rates fall in Q4 2025 as soft market takes hold: Marsh Risk
   Global property insurance rates accelerated their downward trend in the fourth quarter of 2025, with broker Marsh Risk reporting a 9% global decline, led by a sharp 14% drop in the Pacific region.
6. Swiss Re reports strong profits, stable renewals, reduces external nat cat retro
   Swiss Re has reported strong profits and hitting its financial targets for 2025, as well as a relatively stable premium volume for the key January reinsurance renewals. Demonstrating the profitability of the reinsurance business the company will now return more capital to its shareholders, but is a second major player to opt for less retrocession for 2026.
7. Northern Re’s platform scales to $325m capacity following $150m capital raise
   Northern Re, the collateralized reinsurance company that provides investors with access to the returns of its long-tail casualty underwriting business, has announced raising an additional $150 million in committed capital from existing and new institutional investors, which now brings the company’s total platform capacity to $325 million.
8. Nephila hires former Openly / Everest exec Landi as Head of Strategic Growth
   Nephila Capital has hired experienced reinsurance and capital management executive Anthony Landi as Head of Strategic Growth for the firm’s Nephila Advisors investor relations and US business development division.
9. TWIA Board opts to only buy reinsurance and cat bonds up to 1-in-50 year PML in 2026
   At a meeting held in Galveston, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) Board agreed to only pursue purchase of the statutory minimum amount of reinsurance and catastrophe bonds needed to hit the 1-in-50 year funding level in 2026, opting not to buy any additional risk transfer to cover higher return period events.
10. Institutional ILS demand surges, investment manager selection remains key: bfinance
    With the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector continuing to expand, institutional investor appetite within the space has been resurgent. A new paper from consultancy firm bfinance acknowledges that manager selection within the market involves distinct challenges, with unique investment risks and notable operational complexity to consider.

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 36 new articles published in the last week.

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