The Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF Insurance Company) has made payouts of USD 1.14 million to the Government of Lao PDR and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), after heavy rainfall and widespread flooding triggered both Lao PDR’s two-year parametric sovereign policy and WFP’s 2026 disaster resilience policy.
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Strong investor demand and record catastrophe bond issuance, underpinned by increased participation by both insurers and reinsurers, is supporting the continued expansion of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as Moody’s Ratings reports that carriers are using ILS more strategically in the competitive reinsurance market environment.
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Global non-life alternative reinsurance capital increased by 9%, or USD 12 billion in the first half of 2026 to a record USD 147 billion, driven by favourable returns and net inflows of capital, as total reinsurance capital rose by 5% in the period to a high of USD 688 billion, according to reinsurance broker Gallagher […]
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Global credit rating agency AM Best has maintained its stable outlook on the global non-life reinsurance segment, assessing that the market “remains fundamentally strong” despite clear softening in property, challenges in certain classes of casualty in the US, and an overall competitive landscape.
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The performance of insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, has continued to rise through July 2026 with the month delivering the best returns of the year so far for the asset class, as measured by the ILS Advisers Fund Index.
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A wave of severe convective storms that swept across Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy in Europe between 13th and 19th July 2026 are estimated to have caused an insurance industry loss of EUR 2.186 billion, according to catastrophe data aggregator PERILS AG.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 30th 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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Insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital is now “foundational” within the global reinsurance market according to Aon, with alternative sources of capital now accounting for $144.5 billion of sector funds, with that figure rising by $3.5 billion just in the second-quarter of 2026.
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As the casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand, rating agency AM Best has indicated that market participants will need to remain focused on ensuring that both underwriting discipline and risk transparency develop simultaneously in order to keep pace with investor demand.
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Kalshi, the prediction market platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with The Weather Company, a leading weather provider, to expand and support the growing weather hedging activity on its platform through provision of settlement data.
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As institutional investors seek resilient entry points into the re/insurance market, traditional collateralized ILS structures face ongoing challenges surrounding trapped capital and stacked fees. However, investment advisor Resolute Global Partners is presenting an alternative approach by integrating property treaty reinsurance, niche specialty risks, and primary U.S. insurance within a unified, vertically integrated platform.
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Verisk, a data analytics and technology provider to the global insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry, has announced the promotion of Harry White to lead its Property Claim Services (PCS) unit.
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A new study co-authored by catastrophe modelling and climate analytics specialist Reask, has demonstrated how advanced downstream forecast analytics can eliminate basis risk in parametric insurance by funding pre-landfall protective actions before a hurricane strikes.
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Fermat Capital Management recently hit new milestones for two of its dedicated catastrophe bond fund strategies, taking the pair to more than $3 billion of assets under management each, while achieving those levels of assets at a particularly rapid pace, Artemis can report.
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