Best of Artemis, week ending October 18th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 18th 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 October 18th 2026:

1. Hurricane Simon track remained outside of Mexico cat bond parametric trigger zones: Loconte
   As major hurricane Simon’s path shifted west it remained offshore of the parametric trigger zones related to the $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) catastrophe bond, according to analysis by Isacco Loconte, an ILS Investment Specialist at asset manager Azimut Switzerland SA.
2. Pillar Capital Management gets strategic investment from SageSure
   Pillar Capital Management, the Bermuda-based specialist collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities investment fund manager, has secured a new high-profile backer as managing general underwriter SageSure has made a strategic investment in the company.
3. 777 co-founder Wander pleads guilty to $500m+ scheme to defraud lenders and investors
   Josh Wander, one of the co-founders of investment firm 777 Partners, has pled guilty to wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with a $500 million plus scheme to defraud lenders and investors of the company.
4. Hurricane Isaias insurance industry loss estimated in $2bn – $4bn range: Euler ILS Partners
   Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has placed an initial insurance industry loss estimate for recent hurricane Isaias in the range of $2 billion to $4 billion, noting there is the potential for the storm’s losses to add to aggregate structures.
5. Swiss Re says increased reinsurance supply a positive, will align alt capital where it makes sense
   Speaking ahead of the 2026 Baden-Baden gathering, Leopoldo Camara, Head of P&C Reinsurance Northern, Central & Eastern Europe at Swiss Re outlined that more reinsurance capital is needed in the market to address growing, interconnected risks, while also emphasising that the reinsurer will use its deep risk expertise to align alternative capital where it makes sense.
6. KCC estimates hurricane Isaias wind and surge insured losses at $3bn
   Karen Clark & Company (KCC) has provided an initial estimate for the private insurance market loss from wind and storm surge associated with recent hurricane Isaias, saying it expects the total to be $3 billion.
7. Lloyd’s issues guidance and expectations for broker-originated reinsurance structures
   As industry focus grows on designing efficient structures to enable capital to connect with reinsurance risk, Lloyd’s has issued guidance on its expectations for any broker-originated reinsurance structures, which is a strategy that Lloyd’s itself believes is likely to see increasing demand.
8. PICC P&C’s new $12m Great Wall Re is the first Hong Kong sidecar ILS issuance
   PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited has now reported that its new US $12 million issuance of insurance-linked securities under Great Wall Re Limited is actually a quota share reinsurance sidecar, the first in Hong Kong, designed to provide protection to its offshore wind power property insurance book on the Chinese Mainland.
9. Evolving captives becoming strategic platforms for attracting third-party capital: Aon
   Captives are rapidly evolving from risk retention vehicles into strategic capital access platforms, which in turn is beginning to attract third-party capital, according to broker Aon, who emphasises that captive owners are increasingly partnering with external investors to unlock capacity that supports growth initiatives and long-term resilience.
10. ILS investors need to speak up and ask for alternative model views: Karen Clark
    At the ILS Bermuda Convergence 2026 conference, Karen Clark, CEO and Co-founder of catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company, urged the insurance-linked securities community and its investors to ask for alternative model views to be included in the deal flow that comes to market.

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 33 new articles published in the last week.

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