Bamboo Ide8 Insurance Services, LLC, a data-driven insurance distribution platform, has finalised a multi-year sidecar transaction through Greenshoots Re, the first MGA-sponsored sidecar. The deal supports Bamboo’s new California admitted programme with MS Transverse.
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Following the recent closure of the $75 million Arthur Re Ltd. – Tranquil Re 2026-1 catastrophe bond from ILS manager Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP for rated reinsurance platform Nectaris Re, executives from Gallagher Securities, who acted as Sole Structuring Agent and Bookrunner for the transaction, highlighted how the issuance received strong investor demand across the […]
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Andrew Poreda, Vice President, Senior Research Analyst at Sage Advisory Services, the fixed income and alternative solutions manager, has highlighted in a new report that catastrophe bonds are superior financial instruments across many risk metrics, with the analyst particularly flagging how they offer diversification to investors when they need it most.
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US primary insurer Travelers increased its catastrophe bond coverage in 2026 to a staggering $750 million, while the carrier’s Northeast Property Catastrophe Excess-of-Loss Reinsurance July 1st renewal remains unchanged from the prior year in terms of coverage and retention.
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A new restricted special purpose insurer (SPI) named Huygens Re Ltd. has been established in Bermuda, which we understand will become the dedicated structure for the insurance-linked securities investment into a quota share with reinsurance firm PartnerRe for PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investor.
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In May, our sister publication Reinsurance News hosted its second Legacy Market Roundtable in Brighton, in partnership with global reinsurer Swiss Re. A takeaway from the 90-minute session was the shifting role of alternative capital within the casualty space, with one participant noting that this influx of capital could position the legacy industry as a […]
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US insurer Allstate has announced an estimated pre-tax catastrophe loss burden for the month of June 2026 of $563 million. But the second-quarter 2026 total has now risen to $1.72 billion, which is a fairly heavy start for the annual aggregate year for the company’s catastrophe bonds.
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A new study by Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has highlighted how insurance-linked securities (ILS) and various alternative risk transfer solutions are key for mobilising risk capital for the energy transition.
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Fermat Capital Management, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has reached another high point in terms of its cat bond and ILS assets under management, surpassing the $11 billion milestone recently, Artemis can report.
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While the rising risk of a Super El Niño remains highly uncertain in both geography and magnitude, parametric trigger designs can add a crucial layer of granularity to climate coverage. According to Mark Rueegg, CEO of CelsiusPro Group, this flexibility ultimately allows both insurers and the insured to adapt to volatile climate conditions.
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While ample traditional reinsurance capacity is keeping the cyber ILS market limited for now, the underlying risk modeling and investor confidence in the asset class continues to grow. According to a new report from rating agency S&P, these evolving capabilities are laying the groundwork for alternative capital, which could play a much larger role should […]
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CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure index provider, has published its initial industry loss estimates for two severe weather events that impacted the Prairies and Montreal in Canada in June 2026, while also confirming its final loss estimate for the flooding that affected Toronto and surrounding areas in mid-July 2024.
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The World Bank has begun work on a proposed project to deliver a parametric earthquake catastrophe bond for Nepal, targeting US $80 million to US $190 million of fully-collateralized disaster risk financing from the capital markets for the South Asian country.
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As the global protection gap continues to widen, closing it is no longer a question of mobilising more capital, it is a matter of engineering entirely new markets.
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