According to a recent paper by catastrophe risk modeler Karen Clark & Company (KCC), while a long-term correlation exists between El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phases and insured property losses, the climate pattern holds relatively little predictive power for any single year.
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Global broker Aon has announced that it has appointed Bob Reville as Senior Managing Director and Casualty Catastrophe Market Leader within its Risk Capital division, effective July 15th.
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Adaptive Insurance, a climate resilience company and parametric start-up, has successfully secured an additional $5 million in financing from new and existing investors, which will be used to accelerate Adaptive’s development and distribution of specialty products designed to address the growing risks related to climate and weather events.
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Today we have added four more expert speakers to the Artemis London 2026 website, our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.
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Insurance-linked securities funds managed by specialist ILS investment manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP have backed an agreement to acquire the shares of Austrian life insurance specialist company austrion Life.
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Swisscanto Asset Management International S.A. has launched its first UCITS catastrophe bond fund under Luxembourg Law, the Swisscanto (LU) Bond Fund Cat Bonds, debuting with just over US $25 million in assets under management (AUM).
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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has now updated its regulatory framework to make access to alternative reinsurance solutions simpler and easier for insurers in the country, with targeted changes that will support access to catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) for potential sponsors there.
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Swiss Re has now priced its latest catastrophe bond sponsorship, securing the upsized target of $345 million of broad North American peak peril retrocessional protection through its new Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-3) issuance, while the notes all priced at the lowest-ends of twice reduced guidance, Artemis has learned.
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An awaited consultation process on the regulatory framework for a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that can be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements, including sidecars, and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance has now been launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has successfully priced its fourth catastrophe bond sponsorship today and so secured the targeted $100 million of California wildfire protection from the 123 Lights Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) offering at the low-end of price guidance, Artemis has learned.
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The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market remains in a strong position, but expanding into international markets and less conventional perils will be critical for the market’s next stage of growth, according to executives at reinsurance broker Howden Re, who note that this expansion is vital both to unlock diversification benefits and to help close global protection […]
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The first-half of 2026 saw another record period of issuance in the catastrophe bond market, as the use of cat bonds to source reinsurance protection continues to increase and the investor base appetite for new cat bond investment opportunities grows. Beyond the new issuance high-bar that was set, numerous other records fell in H1.
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While the overall catastrophe bond market yield or coupon available to investors continued to rise through the month of June 2026, Plenum Investments noted that softening remains the dominant trend across new cat bond issuance.
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We reported last month that AXA XL had secured $67.5 million of retrocessional protection from a new Galileo Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond issuance. We’ve now learned this deal was particularly innovative and set some new market firsts, including becoming the first US terrorism cat bond ever.
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