The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Hawaiʻi parametric coral reef insurance policy will pay for damage assessment and reef repairs for the first time since it purchased the United States’ first such policy four years ago, following recent impacts from Hurricane Lala which brought dangerous flooding, strong winds and major power outages across the state.
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Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) expects to have its first third-party capitalised life reinsurance sidecar Ruby Re fully-deployed this year and the company is already evaluating a second iteration of the structure, an executive has said.
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BTG Pactual, a major global investment bank and asset manager headquartered in Brazil, has established an insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure named BTG Pactual Sociedade Seguradora de Propósito Específico S.A. (BTG Pactual SSPE) to issue Letras de Risco de Seguro (Insurance Risk Letters), Brazil’s own-brand of ILS instrument.
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In a volatile market environment when some hedge fund and alternative strategies have suffered, UBS Asset Management’s team sees catastrophe bonds as one asset class worth increasing allocations to, given it the carry they can provide remains relatively attractive compared to other investments in credit and fixed income.
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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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