Best of Artemis, week ending March 8th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending March 8th 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 8th 2026:

1. $100bn insured loss event required to derail reinsurance and ILS market: Jefferies on AIFA
   Following the annual AIFA conference held in Florida this week, a new report from analysts at Jefferies reveals that industry executives believe it would take a single $100 billion insured loss event to derail the insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bond, and reinsurance markets.
2. Olympus sponsoring first catastrophe bond, $100m Abacab Re Ltd. Florida wind issuance
   Olympus Insurance Company, a Florida homeowners specialist, has entered the catastrophe bond market for the first time, seeking to sponsor a $100 million Abacab Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) transaction to secure a capital markets backed source of multi-year Florida named storm reinsurance protection.
3. Broadening the investable ILS universe through proprietary catastrophe modelling: Swiss Re
   As the catastrophe bond market continues to expand into new perils and more complex structures, broad and credible modelling coverage becomes highly important. However, reinsurer Swiss Re’s proprietary catastrophe models allow the firm to analyse a wider range of risks, which according to executives expands the “investable universe” while maintaining a well-understood risk-return profile.
4. Casualty sidecars surge in Bermuda as investors pivot to longer-duration yields: Fitch
   The reinsurance sidecar market witnessed rapid growth throughout 2025, particularly in Bermuda, where a number of major re/insurers launched casualty reinsurance sidecars during the year, which demonstrates how investors have a growing interest in longer-duration casualty risk exposure that offers high yields and diversification from property catastrophe risk, says Fitch Ratings.
5. Florida Citizens plans to call $1.1bn of cat bonds. Expects to save on a partial replacement
   Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is planning to call its $1.1 billion of Everglades Re II Ltd. (Series 2024-1) catastrophe bonds in advance of its renewal, to enable it to take advantage of current market conditions and may sponsor issuance of around $600 million of new cat bonds this year to make a saving on its risk transfer costs.
6. Chubb cedes more premium to ABR Re in 2025 as overall earnings benefit grows
   Chubb has reported that it ceded more risk in premium terms to its third-party capitalised total-return reinsurance joint-venture ABR Re in 2025, while the reinsurance commission benefits earned from the entity continued to increase.
7. Reinsurance capital build-up means Berkshire Hathaway expects to write less premium: Abel
   Berkshire Hathaway anticipates underwriting less in reinsurance premiums while the market cycle remains in a more competitive phase, according to CEO Gregory Abel in his first letter to shareholders, while the company pulled back on property writings given the headwinds faced.
8. Beazley CEO on cyber ILS: Next step is securitisation, transformation, ILS fund launch in 2026
   Adrian Cox, the CEO of Beazley stated that, when it comes to cyber insurance-linked securities the firm’s next step is to transition into securitisation and transformation of risks, with its dedicated cyber ILS fund planned for later this year.
9. Gallatin Point sets up strategic partnership with Capital Constellation
   Gallatin Point Capital LLC a private investment firm that focuses on structured investments in financial institutions including re/insurance, services, and related assets, has formed a strategic partnership with Capital Constellation, an investment platform managed by Wafra Inc.
10. Munich Re names Leonie Schubert as new Global Head of Capital Partners
    Munich Re announced that Leonie Schubert has stepped into the role of Global Head of Capital Partners from March 1st, which sees her leading the division of the company where capital market solutions and investor partnerships are managed.

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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