Catastrophe bond news

The combined assets under management of the mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds managed by the Pioneer Investments team have now roughly doubled in the last year, as the total net AUM across the Victory Pioneer CAT Bond Fund and the Pioneer ILS Interval Fund has reached almost $2.16 billion this month.

Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has continued to grow the insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management of its mutual reinsurance fund strategies to just over $5.8 billion, which is now the highest level they have sat at in more than six years.

The Ambassador US mutual catastrophe bond fund strategy operated by Embassy Asset Management has continued to expand its total insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management, with further growth in the last quarter of record which has continued since, lifting the funds AUM to just over $607 million at this time.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 28th 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.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has hired Samantha Cook from the World Bank, who brings deep experience in disaster risk insurance arrangements, including parametric risk transfer and instruments such as catastrophe bonds.

2025 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, with growing investor appetite for securitized casualty risk, according to executives from reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, with Andrew Newman saying it is a “game changer” for the ILS market.

While fixed income is the world’s largest asset class, it is not commonly recognised for investments making social or environmental impact. But a recent report explains why investors should look more closely at fixed income assets and catastrophe bonds are highlighted as one impact investing opportunity within the segment.

Florida’s property insurer of last resort Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is anticipating lower reinsurance costs in 2026, as its policy count and exposure-base has continued to decrease meaning less limit is likely to be needed, while there is an expectation of improved market conditions due to softening that may persist.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to evolve, both catastrophe and non-catastrophe models are critical components for trading, particularly in the 144A format, according to executives at Moody’s, who told Artemis that they view the ILS sector as a “very important element” of the re/insurance market.

This video features the opening keynote of the day at Artemis London 2025, a speech by Nylesh Shah of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), from our fourth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City of London, UK, held on September 2nd 2025.