While reinsurance rates have been trending downward throughout 2025 as the market softens following a period of historic hardening conditions, pricing pressure is now expected to persist absent a severe hurricane season or other major loss, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley.
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Another private catastrophe bond or private insurance-linked securities (ILS) arrangement has come to light from the Mangrove Risk Solutions platform, with this $4.95 million Mangrove Risk Solutions Bermuda Ltd. (Series 2025-G) transaction now taking private issuance tracked by Artemis to over $440 million so far in 2025.
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Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS AG has expanded its real-time industry loss forecasting software tool, known as Wind-Jeannie, to cover typhoon events in Japan and has also updated the existing loss forecasting tools for Europe and Australian perils.
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Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re) part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, and Safehub, a provider of seismic sensor and risk management technology, have launched a new earthquake parametric insurance solution that will help reduce basis risk for parametric re/insurance policies.
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Twelve Securis, the specialist insurance-linked securities investment manager, has made some changes to the leadership for its private ILS focused division, with long-standing employee Paul Larrett named as the new Head of Private ILS, as incumbent Herbie Lloyd is set to depart the company.
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Sompo Holdings, Inc. has announced that it will acquire insurance and reinsurance group Aspen Insurance Holdings in a deal valued at $3.5 billion, while it cites access to alternative capital through the Aspen Capital Markets unit as a key benefit and a “highly differentiated product offering.”
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The recent growth trend in the alternative reinsurance capital market is forecast to persist into 2026, as supply of capital from investors and demand from sponsors seeking risk transfer remain robust, Fitch Ratings has said.
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Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager, is researching and working with artificial intelligence tools to see how the technology can add detail to modelling of perils and aid in making risk selection decisions.
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The reinsurance market cycle has become more subdued thanks to sound risk management practices, strategic use of technology and a maturing partnership with alternative capital (ILS), according to rating agency AM Best.
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Despite the first half of 2025 being an active period for catastrophe bond investors in the primary issuance market, the secondary market for cat bonds was relatively subdued in terms of trading activity in comparison to the first half of 2024, according to Swiss Re Capital Markets, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) division of the global […]
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Nephila, one of the world’s largest and longest-standing insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers, has made changes at the leadership level, with Jessica Laird promoted to become CEO of Nephila Capital, as one of its co-founders, Frank Majors, steps back from the top team to focus on portfolio construction.
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As per S&P Global Ratings, despite several catastrophe bonds defaulting following record-high insured losses from the California wildfires in early 2025 and through recent catastrophe years, the default rate across both rated and non-rated catastrophe bonds remains very low at just 2.3%.
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There is just one week left until our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, Artemis London 2025. Held in London on September 2nd, the event will feature a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking. Register to attend and join the crowd.
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As per a new commentary from Morningstar DBRS, the reinsurance market has seen rapid growth in available capital, which reflects both retained earnings and the growing role of third-party capital, including insurance-linked securities, which has added competitive pressure to pricing but also broadened the industry’s financial foundation.
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