Eaton Vance, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has added to two of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocations it makes within its mutual fund range, with an upsized commitment to the Swiss Re Core Nat Cat Fund and a fresh investment into Munich Re’s sidecar vehicle Eden Re II made for 2025.
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Abundant capacity and increasing competition among reinsurers are leading to softer pricing during the June and July renewals, which supports Fitch Ratings’ expectation that market pressures will persist in affecting prices even after the peak in 2024.
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Flood Re, the state-backed flood reinsurance pool in the United Kingdom, saw its entry to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market with its debut catastrophe bond this year as key for it to “respond to the consequences of global climate risks” as it grapples with rising risks.
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In a recent report on the threat flood disasters pose to the Netherlands as a country particularly vulnerable to climate risks, KPMG highlights the potential for catastrophe bonds to be an instrument that can help in maintaining the insurability of climate risks in an increasingly challenging environment.
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, or CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States with total assets under management of over $556 billion, has hired Mascha Canio, the head of credit and insurance-linked investments at PGGM, to lead its debt investment portfolio.
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Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending July 20th 2025, 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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Alternative risk and reinsurance capital sources are playing a growing role in helping US managing general agents (MGA) grow their businesses, while also being present in their underwriting specialties and a new report from Conning says 51% of MGAs saw ILS funds providing capacity in their markets.
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The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) has completed the design of a parametric flood insurance solution for the Lagos State Government in Nigeria as part of the Tripartite Agreement Programme.
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Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions, the more hedge fund focused part of the global asset manager, has maintained its strongly overweight conviction on the catastrophe bond asset class, finding their returns still appealing for investors despite generally lower yields than two years ago.
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Gallagher Re, the global reinsurance broker, on behalf of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF Insurance Company), has structured and placed a parametric re/insurance programme for the government of Lao PDR.
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GC Securities, the investment banking and capital markets unit of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, worked on a record number of catastrophe bonds in the first-half of 2025, according to the broker’s CEO Dean Klisura.
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US insurer Allstate has announced an estimated pre-tax catastrophe loss burden for the month of June 2025 of $619 million. But the second-quarter 2025 total has now risen to $1.99 billion, which is a relatively heavy start for the annual aggregate year of its catastrophe bonds.
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Arch Capital is set to recover the remainder of its $150 million of retrocessional reinsurance protection from what was its debut property catastrophe bond issuance, the global multi-peril focused Claveau Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1). Covered aggregate losses are now understood to have eroded the remaining principal, Artemis has learned.
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US primary insurer Travelers has renewed substantially the same of its largest catastrophe reinsurance arrangements at the mid-year renewal season, although with some changes and a broadening of another of its covers, and perhaps a non-renewal of smaller treaties, while for the second year running the company has lifted its catastrophe bond attachment higher up […]
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