Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has updated its estimate of insurance industry losses from the severe convective storms (SCS) that struck Australia’s East Coast in late October, lifting the total almost 37% to AU $1.512 billion (approx US $1.05bn).
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending February 1st 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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While the overall catastrophe bond market saw issuance rising around 40% year-on-year in 2025, broking group Aon saw its activity supporting issuance of new cat bonds rising by more than 50%, CEO Greg Case said today.
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Following a record-breaking year for the catastrophe bond market, reinsurance broker Howden Re has outlined how these insurance-linked securities (ILS) instruments have remained in favour due to their liquidity and more standardised structure.
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MGIC Investment Corporation has now successfully priced and settled its latest 144A mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction, securing the targeted just over $323.5 million of collateralized mortgage reinsurance through the Home Re 2026-1 Ltd. transaction.
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Reinsurance broker Gallagher Re has released the latest edition of its cyber rate index, indicating that an oversupply of capacity resulted in a cyber aggregate excess of loss (XOL) risk-adjusted rate (RAR) change of -32% at the January 1st, 2026 renewals.
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Integral ILS Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager, has successfully upsized its debut catastrophe bond sponsorship by nearly 38%, to secure $275 million of US named storm retrocession from the Windrose Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) deal that has now been priced, Artemis can report.
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Winter storm Fern, which affected the United States from January 23rd through 26th, is expected to cause insurance market losses of more than one billion dollars, while it is likely to be compared to previous historic US winter storms, broker Aon has reported.
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In order for the global insurance and reinsurance industry to meet the significant risk capital needs of the AI infrastructure and data centre build-out opportunity, securitization and third-party capital are going to be critical, Dean Klisura, CEO of Guy Carpenter said today.
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The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector finished 2025 on strong footing with December seeing the third-highest returns for that month on record, as both catastrophe bond funds and strategies allocating to private ILS finished the full-year with averaged double-digit returns, the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows.
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TD Insurance’s successful sponsorship of its second 144A catastrophe bond, the C$115 million MMIFS Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, will help the company tackle the rising costs of natural disaster events and provide competitive pricing to its clients, James Russell, President and CEO, Senior Executive Vice President, TD Insurance has said.
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According to a recent report from Willis, a division of WTW, natural catastrophe events generated over $100 billion in insured losses in 2025. This marks the sixth consecutive year that losses have exceeded this amount, highlighting the ongoing severity and persistence of natural catastrophe risk, despite the fact that no single hurricane made landfall in […]
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Despite the softening of the reinsurance market seen at the January renewals, 2026 is still expected to be among the more profitable years in reinsurance, as still higher attachment points and improved portfolio quality will support returns, according to Euler ILS Partners, the Swiss specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager.
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David Flandro of reinsurance broker Howden Re expects alternative, or third-party capital’s important role in the catastrophe space, and increasingly in casualty / specialty lines, to continue.
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