Best of Artemis, week ending September 13th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 13th 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 September 13th 2026:

1. Howden Re launches Novark, to modernise ILS infrastructure, insurance management, securities admin
   Howden Re launched Novark Group, a new venture that promises to modernise core pieces of insurance-linked securities market (ILS) infrastructure, through a digital-first insurance management and securities administration platform, as well as a risk transformer named Novark Re.
2. There’s a massive amount of capital looking to enter our industry: Superczynski, Aon
   The insurance and reinsurance industry has an opportunity to harness the appetite of global investors to support growth and help find the capacity to make more risks insurable, because “there is a massive amount of capital that’s looking to enter our industry,” according to Kelly Superczynski, Head of Global Capital Advisory at Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions.
3. Cedar Trace ILS bolsters its leadership. Fergus Reynolds to become CEO, adds new hire
   Cedar Trace ILS has announced a range of leadership promotions and a strategic hire, which includes Fergus Reynolds being promoted to CEO.
4. Willis Re hires Neil Eckert as CEO
   Willis Re, the reinsurance advisory and brokerage firm, has appointed reinsurance and capital markets veteran Neil Eckert as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
5. Munich Re execs caution on casualty sidecar commutation challenge, risky asset strategies
   Senior executives of global reinsurance firm Munich Re explained that they see the trend for some longer-tailed casualty focused sidecars to offer high returns from the asset side as “not a good idea” while the potential for commutation discussions to prove a challenge at the end of a sidecar term was also discussed.
6. Catastrophe bond market shifts further towards indemnity triggers and per-occurrence coverage
   Over the last year and through the record-levels of issuance in 2026 so far, the catastrophe bond market’s outstanding exposure has shifted further towards indemnity triggers and per-occurrence coverage, as preference for these types of deals continues to rise, both on the sponsor and investor side.
7. Peak Re plans to reignite third-party capital business, partner with investors: CUO Hough
   Peak Re has plans to “reignite” its third-party capital management business in 2027, seeing itself as having a differentiated offering for investors and wanting to become more sophisticated in the space, Chief Underwriting Officer Philip Hough said.
8. Investors should not view cat bonds and private reinsurance as competing asset classes: Bruns, LGT
   As both catastrophe bonds and private reinsurance continue to gain momentum, institutional investors should not be viewing the two as competing asset classes, as their respective strengths are complementary to each other, which ultimately allows investors to build more diversified catastrophe risk portfolios, LGT ILS Partners’ Christian Bruns told us.
9. Investor interest in cat bonds and ILS outpaces market issuance growth: Guatteri, Swiss Re ILS
   Swiss Re is seeing broader and more engaged interest in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities from institutional investors, with this increasing even faster than the substantial issuance growth seen in recent years, according to Mariagiovanna Guatteri, CIO, Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies Inc.
10. Discipline matters more than growth, right-sizing ILS capital is key: Parry, RenaissanceRe
    In this insurance-linked securities market environment where engagement from investors remains strong, Chris Parry, the Global Head of RenaissanceRe Capital Partners told us that a disciplined approach matters more than growth and right-sizing capital is key at this stage of the reinsurance cycle.

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 35 new articles published in the last week.

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