Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities news

While the overall catastrophe bond market saw issuance rising around 40% year-on-year in 2025, broking group Aon saw its activity supporting issuance of new cat bonds rising by more than 50%, CEO Greg Case said today.

Following a record-breaking year for the catastrophe bond market, reinsurance broker Howden Re has outlined how these insurance-linked securities (ILS) instruments have remained in favour due to their liquidity and more standardised structure.

Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has released the latest edition of its cyber rate index, indicating that an oversupply of capacity resulted in a cyber aggregate excess of loss (XOL) risk-adjusted rate (RAR) change of -32% at the January 1st, 2026 renewals.

Integral ILS Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager, has successfully upsized its debut catastrophe bond sponsorship by nearly 38%, to secure $275 million of US named storm retrocession from the Windrose Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) deal that has now been priced, Artemis can report.

In order for the global insurance and reinsurance industry to meet the significant risk capital needs of the AI infrastructure and data centre build-out opportunity, securitization and third-party capital are going to be critical, Dean Klisura, CEO of Guy Carpenter said today.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector finished 2025 on strong footing with December seeing the third-highest returns for that month on record, as both catastrophe bond funds and strategies allocating to private ILS finished the full-year with averaged double-digit returns, the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows.

TD Insurance’s successful sponsorship of its second 144A catastrophe bond, the C$115 million MMIFS Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, will help the company tackle the rising costs of natural disaster events and provide competitive pricing to its clients, James Russell, President and CEO, Senior Executive Vice President, TD Insurance has said.

Despite the softening of the reinsurance market seen at the January renewals, 2026 is still expected to be among the more profitable years in reinsurance, as still higher attachment points and improved portfolio quality will support returns, according to Euler ILS Partners, the Swiss specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager.

David Flandro of reinsurance broker Howden Re expects alternative, or third-party capital’s important role in the catastrophe space, and increasingly in casualty / specialty lines, to continue.

Integral ILS Ltd. is now aiming to secure up to $275 million of US named storm retrocession from its debut Windrose Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond, while the price guidance has been adjusted for each of the tranches of notes being offered, Artemis can report.