As we continue to track catastrophe bond market activity through this very busy 2025, total settled issuance analysed by Artemis has already surpassed $15 billion, while the outstanding cat bond market has grown by 15.5% since the end of last year.
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Florida’s specialist personal property insurers entered the key 2025 mid-year reinsurance renewals from a position of relative strength, following improved profitability and more favourable operating conditions, according to a new report from credit ratings agency AM Best.
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BMS Group has expressed pride in supporting US Coastal through its landmark Chartwell Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond issuance, with Andras Bohm, CEO & Managing Director of BMS Capital Solutions & Advisory, describing the transaction as “the culmination of hard work and collaboration.”
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Vermont Mutual Insurance Company is back in the catastrophe bond market for the third time, looking to sponsor a $200 million or larger Baldwin Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) issuance, which would become its largest cat bond yet, targeting an expansion of its capital markets backed reinsurance to cover losses in north east US states.
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The final week of May brought a wave of damaging severe convective storms and flooding across the southern United States, with insured losses likely to reach into the billions, according to global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon.
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Palomar Insurance Holdings, the speciality US insurer that offers largely catastrophe exposed property products, has lifted the top of its reinsurance tower to provide as much as $3.53 billion of earthquake reinsurance protection at the renewals, with multi-year catastrophe bonds set to provide 33% of that total for 2025.
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Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc. has bought $110 million more in reinsurance limit at its 2025 renewal, taking the top of the reinsurance tower for its subsidiaries to $2.526 billion, with ILS manager Nephila Capital once again cited as a key counterpart.
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American Integrity Insurance Company renewed a meaningful $799 million increase in reinsurance limit this year, helped by its latest and largest catastrophe bond to-date, resulting in a reinsurance tower that now extends to $2.59 billion and features more cat bond protection.
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According to Howden Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Howden, risk-adjusted property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line fell in a range from flat to down 20% at the June 1st renewals, with ILS capacity said to be adding flexibility and competitive tension in top-layers.
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Commenting on the successful placement of its new €200 million Lion Re DAC Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond, sponsor Generali’s Group CFO Cristiano Borean hailed the “unique and distinctive ESG features” of the cat bond, also citing “a further enhancement in terms of structural efficiency, optimisation and flexibility,” thanks to the new shelf programme under Lion […]
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The GAM Investments operated Star Cat Bond Fund UCITS strategy saw its catastrophe bond assets under management rise at the latest reporting of net asset values, halting a decline that began after ending its long relationship with the fund’s previous portfolio manager, Fermat Capital Management.
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Since launching its Risk Exchange platform in 2023, Accelerant Holdings has positioned itself as a conduit between institutional capital and specialty insurance risk, offering what CEO Jeff Radke describes as one of the few opportunities for investors to gain “a fair slice of the whole book of business.”
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The ILS Advisers Fund Index, which tracks the performance of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector, has turned positive for the year after April on the back of another strong month of private ILS fund returns.
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At Artemis’ ILS NYC 2025 conference, a high-profile panel of industry figures discussed how the maturing catastrophe bond market can better navigate capacity crunches, volatility, and communication gaps as it continues to grow at record pace.
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