Over the last few year’s we’ve noticed increasing interest in the insurance-linked securities asset class as an investment opportunity from institutions in Latin America and now pensions in Chile have reportedly begun allocating to catastrophe bonds.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance programs in Southeast US states have undergone a fundamental shift. Far from a supplementary capital pool, the Rule 144A catastrophe bond market has evolved into a fundamental element of regional risk placement, an integration that has inverted historical market norms over the last five years, according to Adam Schwebach, Head of Property, […]
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Isaac Anthony, CEO of CCRIF SPC, the regional parametric risk pool for the Caribbean and Central America, has announced that the organisation grew its coverage by 9% to US $1.57 billion, and introduced new members ahead of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.
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A new assessment by Moody’s shows that the United States faces a widening gap between growing flood risk and the take-up of flood insurance, potentially exposing the country to more than $375 billion in aggregated uninsured flood losses from a 1-in-100-year event.
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The Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA) is now seeking lower pricing for its latest catastrophe bond, while the target remains to secure $150 million or more in multi-peril aggregate reinsurance protection through the Mayflower Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis has learned.
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Arch Capital Group has returned to the catastrophe bond market for its third sponsorship, targeting $100 million of capital markets backed property catastrophe retrocession for peak North American perils from a Ramble Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis can report.
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Slide Insurance Holdings, Inc. has completed its Catastrophe Excess of Loss Reinsurance Program for the 2026-2027 treaty year, securing a meaningful $5.463 billion of total aggregate reinsurance limit, representing a 65% increase from last year’s $3.304 billion.
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Cedar Trace, the Bermuda-based insurance, reinsurance, and asset management group, has announced the hiring of well-known industry executive Chris Wilson to its insurance-linked securities leadership, further strengthening its team and bringing meaningful operation experience in ILS.
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Catastrophe models have been called out as failing to account for so-called “supershear” earthquake events, with specialist Lloyd’s re/insurer MS Amlin stating that models “are failing to factor in a little-known class of earthquake despite it being linked to two thirds of industry losses from seismic events in the last decade.”
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Gallagher Re’s new Arthur Re Ltd. platform for index-trigger catastrophe bond transactions demonstrated how it can deliver on efficiency and speed to market with the recent $150 million Arthur Re Ltd. – Quercian Re 2026-1 issuance for first-time cat bond sponsor Oak Global, executives have said.
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The California Earthquake Authority’s (CEA) reinsurance program limit continued to grow through the first four months of 2026, to end April at just over $8.2 billion, with catastrophe bonds at the time providing $2.875 billion of that.
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Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherungs AG, a German insurance company, has entered the catastrophe bond market for its debut sponsorship, targeting €100 million or more in reinsurance limit to cover flood events in Germany with a Yardstick Re DAC (Series 2026-1) cat bond issuance, Artemis can report.
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RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the specialist division of the reinsurer, lifted its third-party investor capital managed across joint-venture reinsurance and insurance-linked securities strategies by around 7% over the last year, to end March 2026 with $8.46 billion of assets under management.
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As per Solidum Partners, the onset of an El Niño pattern does not translate into a straightforward rule of thumb for ILS managers and their clients. While a less active hurricane season typically implies downward pressure on nominal spreads, the firm highlights that a broader array of market forces, including capital supply-demand dynamics and total […]
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