While the rising risk of a Super El Niño remains highly uncertain in both geography and magnitude, parametric trigger designs can add a crucial layer of granularity to climate coverage. According to Mark Rueegg, CEO of CelsiusPro Group, this flexibility ultimately allows both insurers and the insured to adapt to volatile climate conditions.
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While ample traditional reinsurance capacity is keeping the cyber ILS market limited for now, the underlying risk modeling and investor confidence in the asset class continues to grow. According to a new report from rating agency S&P, these evolving capabilities are laying the groundwork for alternative capital, which could play a much larger role should […]
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CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure index provider, has published its initial industry loss estimates for two severe weather events that impacted the Prairies and Montreal in Canada in June 2026, while also confirming its final loss estimate for the flooding that affected Toronto and surrounding areas in mid-July 2024.
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The World Bank has begun work on a proposed project to deliver a parametric earthquake catastrophe bond for Nepal, targeting US $80 million to US $190 million of fully-collateralized disaster risk financing from the capital markets for the South Asian country.
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As the global protection gap continues to widen, closing it is no longer a question of mobilising more capital, it is a matter of engineering entirely new markets.
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Whilst it appears that a super El Niño could be on the horizon, a new commentary from VP Bank AG authored by Senior Investment Strategist Bernhard Allgäuer indicates that insurance-linked securities (ILS) can provide portfolio diversification as their returns are driven by natural disasters, rather than financial market turmoil, making them largely uncorrelated with traditional […]
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Insured losses from natural catastrophe events across the globe in the first half of 2026 are estimated to have reached USD $46 billion, down on last year’s $84 billion and 28% below the 10-year average of $64 billion, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re’s H1 2026 Natural Catastrophe and Climate Report.
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Reinsurance sidecars remain a key theme in 2026, with third-party capital deployment holding broadly stable despite a rapidly evolving landscape of perils and structures, according to Aon Securities, the broker-dealer and investment banking arm of the broking firm.
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African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.) the financial affiliate and parametric insurance underwriting entity of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, has appointed David Maslo as its permanent CEO, following his successful tenure as interim leader during a period of significant transformation for the company.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has published its third industry loss estimate for the Victoria Bushfires which took place during the period of January 7th to 13th, 2026, with the insured industry loss now standing at AU$860 million.
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The catastrophe bond market reached new heights in terms of issuance and activity levels in the second-quarter of 2026, with a number of important records being set as cat bond sponsors and investors continued to show growing commitment to the space.
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A new insurer has been launched supported by third-party capital from investors and asset managers KKR-backed Kilter Finance and Blue Owl Capital, with newly rated WoodStar Reciprocal Exchange set to provide dedicated underwriting capacity through the Accelerant Risk Exchange.
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Against the softening property catastrophe market, casualty remains the most focal alternative within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, but also the hardest to successfully close, according to Ledger Investing, who reports that while capital is actively seeking diversification, casualty rate adequacy remains intact, and the market is working deliberately to standardise.
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Market conditions remained generally favourable for buyers of non-marine retrocession at the July renewals, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, who highlights in its latest 1st View report, that catastrophe rates fell by up to 20% for loss free accounts.
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