CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure index provider, has raised its insurance industry loss estimate for the June 2026 flooding event that impacted Montreal’s West Island and the surrounding areas to CAD $442 million, a 7.5% increase from its second loss estimate of CAD $411 million that was issued in August.
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Executives at Howden Capital Markets & Advisory (HCMA) have indicated that as traditional casualty capacity remains constrained, casualty sidecars are becoming a genuine third pillar alongside traditional reinsurance and the balance-sheet, moving beyond being a specialty product for a select number of sophisticated investors.
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Property insurance claims severity and costs are rising in the United States, even during periods where the number of catastrophe events designated were stable. Verisk’s latest data shows the second-quarter of 2026 could become one of the most costly for insurers on an average property claims cost basis.
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Property aggregate excess-of-loss (XoL) capacity has rebounded strongly driven by a 50% increase in traded limits, according to reinsurance broker Marsh Re, revealing that nearly 40% of buyers now integrate frequency protection into their XoL strategies, up from just over a quarter two years ago.
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Enstar, one of the largest legacy and run-off reinsurance specialists in the world, has recently begun fronting for capital providers including insurance-linked securities managers and sees this new offering a diversifying solution for its toolkit and one it intends to selectively develop further, Anguel Zaprianov explained to Artemis in a recent interview.
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Insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe bonds are seen as a complementary mechanism to help provide the necessary capital to transfer and fund the risks of large infrastructure projects in Asia, according to Lim Cheng Khai of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
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As cyber, data centres and artificial intelligence (AI) generate new material cumulations of risk, matching ILS capital to these emerging exposures requires the right fund structures to unlock investor capacity without compromising core portfolio value, Leadenhall Capital Partners CEO Luca Albertini highlighted to Artemis.
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Tower Insurance, the Auckland, New Zealand-headquartered general insurer, has capitalised on favourable reinsurance market conditions to expand its catastrophe coverage again, buying first-event limit of up to NZ $970 million at its renewal, while experiencing improved pricing for the second year in a row.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 20th 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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As asset-driven sidecars expand in the casualty market, focus is shifting from capital efficiency to risk management. Given this, Ledger Investing indicates that turning collateral into a second source of return requires market participants to underwrite the supporting asset portfolio with the same discipline as the liabilities.
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Moody’s has launched RiskInvestorIQ, a dedicated catastrophe risk analytics and portfolio management application to provide ILS investors and risk professionals with an environment to evaluate transactions and gauge their portfolio impact.
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Urs Baertschi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Property & Casualty (P&C) Reinsurance at Swiss Re emphasised that within today’s increasingly interconnected world, the reinsurer is supporting clients by creating risk awareness, risk prevention, and risk transfer.
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Insurance-linked securities investors must broaden their mandates or risk losing relevance with cedents in a softening reinsurance market flush with capacity, according to Shiv Kumar, CEO of Marsh Securities, speaking in an interview at the 2026 Rendez-Vous de Septembre.
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While softer property catastrophe reinsurance pricing can allow P&C insurers to improve their earnings and strengthen their protection it is the management response that matters, rating agency KBRA has said. As those that use favourable pricing to accelerate growth may realise substantially less credit benefit when catastrophes occur or the market turns again.
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