As the catastrophe bond market continues to expand, WTW has highlighted these instruments as an appropriate asset class within a total portfolio approach (TPA). The company notes that cat bonds enhance both portfolio return distribution and diversification, offering returns that remain uncorrelated to traditional asset classes.
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Hannover Re has reported its full-year 2025 results this morning, with a meaningful increase to net income and clear growth in property and casualty risks, while on the large loss side insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources ended up supporting roughly 20% of the large losses it experienced.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS AG has published a fourth and final industry loss estimate of nearly AU $1.88 billion for Cyclone Alfred, which affected the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales during the period of February 28 to March 12, 2025.
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At the January 2026 reinsurance renewals, Fidelis Insurance Group added further efficiency to its aggregate protection for the year, in a renewal that saw meaningful rate reductions of around 20% for the company, according to Jonny Strickle, Group Managing Director of Fidelis Insurance Group.
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Plymouth Rock, the northeast US regional insurer, has successfully secured its targeted $100 million in named storm reinsurance protection through its debut catastrophe bond, as the Tremont Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) notes have now been priced approximately 16% below the mid-point of initial guidance, Artemis has learned.
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The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), a large Canadian institutional retirement fund, saw its investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) rising in value by approximately 9% in 2025, lifting its ILS portfolio to approximately US $1.44 billion.
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The California Earthquake Authority’s (CEA) reinsurance program grew slightly to include limit of $7.912 billion at the end of 2025, while the catastrophe bond market was providing its largest share of the risk transfer tower ever, at 36% of total limit.
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CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States, ended 2025 with its investments in catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategies amounting to $1.451 billion, with allocations in place with Tangency Capital, Integral ILS and Swiss Re’s SRILIAC.
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Given the softening of reinsurance rates and compression in risk spreads across catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, the expected return of ILS investments is generally at a lower level, but private bank and asset manager VP Bank AG has noted that the risk premium available to investors is still attractive.
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US primary property and casualty insurer The Hartford clearly sees the catastrophe bond market as a valuable source of efficient protection, that over the last few years has helped the company meaningfully raise the top of its occurrence catastrophe reinsurance tower.
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SageSure, the specialist catastrophe-exposed property managing general underwriter (MGU), has sponsored its second collateralized reinsurance sidecar, securing $200 million of protection from a Seawall Re II Ltd. transaction.
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The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures has expanded rapidly, with estimates from rating agency AM Best valuing the space between $16 billion and $18 billion, which marks an 183% increase over the mid-point of the $5 billion to $7 billion range estimated by the agency in 2023.
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RenaissanceRe is pushing back against the idea that the January 1, 2026 renewals mark a return to pre‑hard‑market softness in property catastrophe. While prices fell at 1/1, executives from the firm stressed that the structural changes of the last two years, higher retentions and tighter terms & conditions, have been preserved, which ultimately supports risk […]
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Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has reached an agreement to acquire kWh Analytics, a US-based renewable energy MGA, in a move that will see the firm get embedded into its MAP (Marine, Accident & Political) Risks team.
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