Fermat Capital Management has launched a new strategy specifically for investors in New Zealand, with the Fermat Cat Bond PIE Fund becoming the first cat bond fund structured in the tax efficient Portfolio Investment Entities format.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 16th 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 Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) continued to grow its market share of catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) in the second-quarter of 2026, ending the period with a record-high $70.5 billion of ILS related listings on the exchange.
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According to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, year-to-date industry losses from US severe convective storms in 2026 have accelerated and climbed above $35 billion, as the peril’s quieter start to the opening months of the year have since given way to prolific activity.
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Global insurer AIG has expanded its cyber offering with the launch of a new parametric cloud outage solution developed in partnership with Parametrix, a provider of digital infrastructure insurance solutions.
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A national adaptation plan produced for the government of south Pacific island nation Samoa calls for scaling up of parametric protection across the region, as well as for existing risk pools to cover more perils, while also suggesting a regional catastrophe bond should be planned to provide risk capacity in future.
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Tropical storm Lala in the central Pacific could make the first United States hurricane landfall of 2026 this weekend, as the storm is forecast to intensify and has the Big Island of Hawaii in its sights.
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The full agenda with speaker allocation to panels is now available for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026. If you want to join us on September 1st, for a full-day of in-depth ILS market discussion and valuable networking you must register soon to attend.
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As alternative reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related collateralized structures, continues to expand and gain momentum across the reinsurance market, this pace is expected to continue, and according to Laurent Rousseau of broker Guy Carpenter, this will lead to a greater space for financial investors.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its third industry loss estimate for extratropical windstorm Nils, also known as “Ulrike”, that struck the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions in southwest France in mid-February, placing the insurance market loss at €695 million, a notable decline from its second estimate that was published in May.
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Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has issued a parametric payout for the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Peru in May and activated Safehub’s Shake Network trigger.
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Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorm activity that struck the Midwest of the United States earlier this month is seen as having the potential to result in a top-10 severe weather insurance industry loss event, which implies that the cost could be around $5.1 billion or higher to the market, according to broker Guy Carpenter.
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CatIQ, the Toronto-based independent catastrophe insurance data provider, has published a final insurance industry loss estimate of CAD $2.80 billion from the severe flooding generated by the remnants of Hurricane Debby that impacted Ontario and Quebec between August 9th and 10th, 2024.
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Over the first-half of 2026, Bermuda headquartered re/insurer Arch Capital reported a 27% reduction in net property catastrophe reinsurance premiums, while its senior executives noted higher cessions to reinsurance (likely retro) and third-party capital providers.
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