Insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, saw returns accelerating in August 2026, as the average ILS fund performance reached 1.39% and cat bond funds had a particularly strong month, latest data from the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows.
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The current soft market in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) is not yet at the depressed levels seen in 2017, analysis from consultancy Lane Financial LLC shows. But the company suggests the soft cat bond market could last another year, if 2026 continues to run loss-free.
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With the life and annuity reinsurance space seeing a wave of interest from both internal and external sponsors, including third-party capital providers, Marsh has launched a new platform initiative named Archer that is designed to help sponsors quickly set up and launch a new life and annuity reinsurance structure including sidecars.
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Hurricane Polo has now made landfall on the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico with sustained winds of 110 mph and a minimum central pressure of 965mb, at which level there is no threat to the parametric trigger of the Mexican governments $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) catastrophe bond.
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As Rule 144A property catastrophe bond issuance continues to surge, spreads have also been compressed through a combination of reinsurance rates softening and high levels of capital and investor appetite, given this, Dr. Raffaele Dell’Amore, Partner at Icosa Investments AG, has stressed to Artemis that market capacity must follow genuine opportunity, rather than capital outstripping demand.
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Registration is now open for our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference. ILS NYC 2027 will be held in New York on February 5th 2027. We’ve sold out our ILS NYC conference every year, so lock-in your attendance by registering today. Reserve your place now while the Super Early Bird rate lasts.
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The reinsurance sidecar market is expected to continue expanding thanks to notable momentum being seen in casualty sidecar structures, according to rating agency AM Best. The firm also highlights that the broader collateralized reinsurance space is poised for future expansion due to greater flexibility in structure, modeling, and perils.
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This new video features the opening panel discussion of the day at our recent Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference, a session exploring how Lloyd’s market participants are accessing institutional investor capital through the UK based ILS structure London Bridge.
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Analysts from Jefferies are not confident that reinsurance leadership teams are fully-acknowledging how fast rates have been softening and believe that the focus will shift to terms and conditions from 2028, while a soft market floor may not be found until 2030.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 27th 2026, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.
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The Ambassador US mutual fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management, that allocates its capital to catastrophe bonds and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) that we believe to be largely ILW’s, has reached a new milestone with its net assets under management practically at $1 billion.
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A new joint analysis published by Swiss Re Institute and LSE has highlighted how artificial intelligence (AI) and supply chains are opening new pathways to systemic stress as risks become increasingly interconnected, which is driving a need for expanded capacity and leading them to highlight ILS as a crucial capital source.
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Liberty Mutual Insurance has announced the hire of Shaun Sinniah from Miller, who joins as Head of Capital Solutions for Global Risk Solutions (GRS), effective September 28th, 2026.
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With AI-driven infrastructure growth creating high levels of demand for catastrophe capacity within the re/insurance industry, Michael Stahel of LGT ILS Partners, has called out how alternative capital providers are well positioned to complement the needs that are being imposed onto traditional insurers and reinsurers amongst this build out.
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