Cat bond news

Catastrophe bond funds structured as UCITS investment strategies are now averaging a 6.67% return for the year to September 25th 2026, which is already the fourth best year on record for the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 4th 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.

Catastrophe bond issuance was above-average at $948 million for the third-quarter of the year which has served to keep the market on pace to set new records, with total nine-month 2026 issuance reaching a new $18.9 billion high of risk capital analysed and tracked by Artemis, our latest quarterly catastrophe bond market report shows.

The Stone Ridge High Yield Reinsurance Risk Premium Fund, the main catastrophe bond focused strategy operated by Stone Ridge, has reached a milestone of $5 billion in assets under management, while the investment manager’s AUM across its mutual catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities and reinsurance funds now sits around $7.6 billion.

Brazil’s regulator the Superintendence of Private Insurance (SUSEP) has published a range of proposals designed to bolster the country’s financial and insurance protection against natural catastrophes, with reforms and further developments in insurance-linked securities (ILS) set to be part of the continuing discussions.

The Victory Pioneer CAT Bond Fund has now grown by over $1 billion in assets through 2026 year-to-date, with the strategy reaching $2.76 billion in AUM this month. Meanwhile, the combined AUM across dedicated mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds managed by the Pioneer Investments team now stands at almost $3.66 billion.

A trend towards smaller catastrophe bond issues becoming more feasible as market infrastructure improves has been highlighted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), who suggest that what they term micro-catastrophe bonds have relevant application in disaster risk financing initiatives.

Insurance-linked securities investment fund strategies, across catastrophe bonds and private ILS, saw returns accelerating in August 2026, as the average ILS fund performance reached 1.39% and cat bond funds had a particularly strong month, latest data from the ILS Advisers Fund Index shows.

The current soft market in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) is not yet at the depressed levels seen in 2017, analysis from consultancy Lane Financial LLC shows. But the company suggests the soft cat bond market could last another year, if 2026 continues to run loss-free.

Hurricane Polo has now made landfall on the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico with sustained winds of 110 mph and a minimum central pressure of 965mb, at which level there is no threat to the parametric trigger of the Mexican governments $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) catastrophe bond.