Best of Artemis, week ending October 26th 2025

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 26th 2025, 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 26th 2025:

1. Jamaica cat bond marked down, major hurricane Melissa landfall still forecast
   Jamaica’s $150 million IBRD CAR Jamaica 2024 parametric World Bank catastrophe bond has been marked down on secondary pricing sheets and the US National Hurricane Center forecast continues to show a major hurricane Melissa landfall on the island.
2. USAA gets upsized $400m Res Re 2025-2 cat bond with meaningfully reduced pricing
   USAA has secured its upsized $400 million target for multi-peril per-occurrence reinsurance from its latest catastrophe bond issuance, as the Residential Reinsurance 2025 Limited (Series 2025-2) deal has now been priced with its spreads finalised at the low-ends of their twice-reduced guidance.
3. Fortitude/Carlyle FCA Re life/annuity sidecar funded to $700m+
   The newly launched Fortitude Carlyle Asia Reinsurance, Ltd. (FCA Re) reinsurance sidecar, a joint initiative between Fortitude Re and global investment firm Carlyle, has been capitalised with more than $700 million in deployable capital from a range of investors.
4. Amazon AWS outage not a catastrophe for parametric cyber (or Cumulus cat bond): Parametrix
   Last week’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage may have cost billions in lost opportunity and downtime for technology and internet services around the world and could trigger some cyber insurance policies, but it was not significant enough to be considered a Catastrophic Event, Parametrix has told us.
5. Property cat bloom is off the rose. Margin remains, depending on 1/1 feeding frenzy: Berkley
   In property catastrophe reinsurance “the bloom is off the rose” according to Rob Berkley, President and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation, who during an earnings call yesterday cautioned that while margin does remain in property cat, the potential for a “feeding frenzy” at the 1/1 2026 renewals may change that.
6. Sidecars, third-party capital in focus as emphasis on capital management grows: BlackRock
   Some 67% of insurers and reinsurers surveyed by investment giant BlackRock said they intend to utilise reinsurance sidecars over the coming year, while 54% expect to increase their use of third-party capital sources, underscoring the continued push to more efficient management of capital in the sector.
7. Vantage Risk building a “mosaic of capital” as investors look beyond property cat: McKeown
   As investor appetite continues to broaden beyond property catastrophe, Vantage Risk is building a “mosaic of capital providers,” matching different investors with different risks, from short-tail cat exposures to long-tail casualty and credit lines, according to Chris McKeown, Chief Executive, Reinsurance, ILS, and Innovation.
8. One William Street Capital sponsoring $125m Meadows Ltd. named storm cat bond
   A new catastrophe bond is being offered to investors that has a subsidiary of investment firm One William Street Capital Management, L.P. as its ceding company or sponsor, with the Meadows Ltd. (Series 2025-1) designed to provide $125 million or more in US named storm protection.
9. Man AHL launches awaited UCITS strategy, the Man Systematic Cat Bonds fund
   Man Group, a global independent alternative and active investment management firm, has now launched its awaited UCITS catastrophe bond fund managed under the Man AHL brand, with the Man Systematic Cat Bonds fund having become operational earlier this month.
10. UCITS catastrophe bond fund assets hit $17.73bn after Q3, now up 28%+ in 2025
    The UCITS catastrophe bond fund sector has continued to expand through the latest quarter of record, adding more than 3% in assets under management across the group of 17 UCITS cat bond funds, to reach a new high of almost $17.73 billion after September 2025.

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 32 new articles published in the last week.

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