Best of Artemis, week ending September 27th 2026

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 27th 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 27th 2026:

1. Enstar sees fronting for ILS capital as diversifying solution to selectively develop: Zaprianov
   Enstar has recently begun fronting for capital providers including insurance-linked securities managers and sees this new offering a diversifying solution for its toolkit and one it intends to selectively develop further, Anguel Zaprianov explained.
2. Property aggregate XoL rebounds with 50% increase in traded limits: Marsh Re
   Property aggregate excess-of-loss (XoL) capacity has rebounded strongly driven by a 50% increase in traded limits, according to Marsh Re, revealing that nearly 40% of buyers now integrate frequency protection into their XoL strategies, up from just over a quarter two years ago.
3. Liberty Mutual Investments hires Brooks as MD, Head of Insurance Solutions & Capital Markets
   Liberty Mutual Investments has hired experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) market executive Paschal Brooks as Managing Director and Head of Insurance Solutions & Capital Markets.
4. ILS diversity never been larger, market must continue expanding opportunities: Anger, Marsh Securities
   The diversity and size of the ILS investor base has never been larger, according to Cory Anger, Managing Director at Marsh Securities, who believes that the market remains extremely healthy, while emphasising the need to continue expanding investment opportunities further.
5. Casualty sidecars emerging as third pillar, sponsors urged to act: HCMA
   Executives at Howden Capital Markets & Advisory (HCMA) have indicated that as traditional casualty capacity remains constrained, casualty sidecars are becoming a genuine third pillar alongside traditional reinsurance and the balance-sheet, moving beyond being a specialty product for a select number of sophisticated investors.
6. US property claims severity and costs rising, even with stable designated cat events: Verisk
   Property insurance claims severity and costs are rising in the United States, even during periods where the number of catastrophe events designated were stable. Verisk’s latest data shows the second-quarter of 2026 could become one of the most costly for insurers on an average property claims cost basis.
7. Twelve Securis sees demand for blended liquid cat bond and private ILS portfolios: Doris
   As the catastrophe bond market continues to expand and create further opportunities in the ILS market, there is also a growing demand being seen for portfolios that combine liquid cat bonds with carefully selected private ILS exposures, which according to Twelve Securis’ Cahal Doris, gives investors greater control over liquidity, diversification and risk-return objectives.
8. Deploying ILS capital into cyber, AI, data centres requires right fund structures: Albertini, Leadenhall
   As cyber, data centres and artificial intelligence (AI) generate new material cumulations of risk, matching ILS capital to these emerging exposures requires the right fund structures to unlock investor capacity without compromising core portfolio value, Leadenhall Capital Partners CEO Luca Albertini highlighted.
9. Investors should consider ILS for diversification and strong risk-return profile: PGGM’s Takken-Somers
   Institutional investors that have not yet chosen to allocate capital into insurance-linked securities (ILS) should be considering to do so given the diversification benefits that it offers, as well as its attractive risk-return profile, according to Eveline Takken-Somers, Head of Insurance Linked Investments, PGGM.
10. ILS should be seen as a source of ‘strategic possibility’ not just capital: Aeolus’ Dutt
    Aditya Dutt, President of Aeolus Capital Management, has indicated that the re/insurance industry is not making full use of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) investor base by treating the market as just a source of capital, where it should also be viewing it as a source of “strategic possibility”.

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 27 new articles published in the last week.

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