Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities news

Convex Group, the specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has raised the target size for its latest and third catastrophe bond sponsorship, with protection from the Hypatia Ltd. (Series 2025-1)  cat bond issuance now expected to fall between $125 million and as much as $150 million, Artemis has learned.

Everest Re, the global reinsurer arm of Everest Group, looks set to secure meaningful catastrophe bond backed reinsurance capacity as its target has now doubled to secure $900 million in collateralized retrocession from its new Kilimanjaro II Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) and Kilimanjaro II Re Ltd. (Series 2025-2) transactions, Artemis can report.

SV SparkassenVersicherung (SV) is setting its sights on future catastrophe bond activity after making its market debut earlier this year with the $100 million Liongate Re DAC issuance, a landmark deal co-sponsored with Japan’s Zenkyoren.

Vermont Mutual Insurance Company has now secured the 25% upsized target for $250 million of fully-collateralized multi-peril reinsurance from its new Baldwin Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, Artemis has learned.

Kin Insurance has increased the size of its Florida reinsurance tower by 40% at the mid-year renewals, securing $1.4 billion of limits for that state, while its reinsurance coverage for other states (ex-CA) it operates in grew even more to surpass $250 million in limits.

The Government of Jamaica has prepared itself for the 2025 hurricane season with a further increase to its National Natural Disaster Risk Financing Policy arrangements, with the largely parametric reserves and contingent financing augmented with parametric insurance and its World Bank catastrophe bond.

Catastrophe bond issuance in the second-quarter of 2025 now looks set to exceed $10 billion, marking the period as the first where new cat bonds issued have reached that milestone in any official quarter, as activity this year continues to propel the market to new heights, Artemis’ data shows.

Vermont Mutual Insurance Company has now raised the target size of its new Baldwin Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, with the company now looking to secure up to $250 million of capital markets-backed reinsurance protection to cover losses in north east US states.

Global P&C insurer AmTrust Financial Services has now secured its latest catastrophe bond, at the 50% upsized top-end target size to source $150 million of northeast US named storm reinsurance protection from the capital markets with its new Solis Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, at a spread fixed at the low-end of guidance.

UBS Asset Management currently sees a little more value in collateralized reinsurance than in catastrophe bonds, while in recent months it benefited from positive revisions to wildfire loss reserves at an ILS manager it allocates to.