Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the hedge fund solutions unit of Blackstone, has now made a second direct investment into a catastrophe bond through one of its flagship muti-strat alternatives funds.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 23rd 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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Solid returns generated by the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in recent years have encouraged investors to maintain or increase their allocations, leading rating agency AM Best to highlight third-party reinsurance capital as an increasingly important part of global reinsurance capacity.
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IRB (Re), the Brazilian reinsurance company, has renamed its special purpose insurer and issuer of Letra de Risco de Seguro, the local brand of insurance-linked securities, to align it with the group name, now becoming IRB (SSPE).
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RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the specialist third-party capital management division of the reinsurer, lifted its partnering investor capital managed across joint-venture reinsurance and insurance-linked securities strategies by around 5.5% over the last year, to end June 2026 with $8.54 billion of assets under management.
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A recent report from ALIRT Insurance Research suggests that steady growth amongst Bermuda reinsurers and sidecars are responsible for a significant portion of the U.S. life insurance sector’s expansion in recent years.
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A busy July in catastrophe loss terms from severe weather activity has resulted in US insurer Allstate reporting $682 million in pre-tax losses, which has lifted the total across the current annual aggregate risk period for its catastrophe bonds to $2.402 billion so far.
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Hannover Re is continuing to build-out its Bermuda-based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform Hannover Re Capital Partners in 2026, with funds deployed for partnering investors already, the team being strengthened and a goal to onboard more investors while establishing new structures to support a range of investment opportunities.
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With now less than two weeks to go until our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026, here’s another update on who you can meet if you attend. If you want to join us for a full-day of in-depth ILS market discussion and valuable networking, you must register here.
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Global reinsurance broker Howden Re has hired Matthew Overall as Managing Director, Retro, in a London-based role, where he is expected to play a key role in the continued growth of the company’s global retrocession platform.
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Twelve Securis, the specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has appointed André Botma as Portfolio Manager within its ILS Investment Management team.
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Catastrophe bond market yields may have declined over the last two years, but specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities investment manager Euler ILS Partners believes this is a normalisation, or a return to more historically normal pricing, rather than a structural shift in demand.
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Nascent Re Ltd. a licensed reinsurance transformer owned and operated by Bermuda-based Nascent Group, has issued $23.5 million of preferred shares through a segregated account named Telford marking the second private insurance-linked securities (ILS) arrangement we’ve seen from this vehicle.
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During a recent media briefing, Hon. Andre Ebanks, MP, Premier & Minister for Financial Services and Commerce, highlighted how the Cayman Islands’ application for US National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Qualified Jurisdiction Status (QJS) could further boost the territory’s appeal for ILS, while also creating opportunity for the island to mature in the reinsurance […]
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