Catastrophe bond news

SCOR Investment Partners, the asset management arm of the French reinsurance group and a manager of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, has grown its ILS assets under management to US $4.8 billion as of July 1, 2025, representing an increase of 20% since mid-year 2024 when it stood at US $4 billion.

The number of catastrophe bond sponsors in the Artemis leaderboard with at least $500 million in risk capital outstanding across in-force cat bond arrangements has risen by approximately 46% in just one year, as the roster of sponsors in the cat bond market continues to expand alongside this year’s rapid issuance activity.

A recent paper authored by Kensuke Molnar-Tanaka, OECD Development Centre and Yang-Che Wu, Feng Chia University explores how the issuance of multi-country catastrophe bonds can enhance disaster cost management in Southeast Asia.

UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are showing interest in hedge fund investments, as they seek to navigate market volatility and broader macro-economic uncertainty, according to broker Aon, insight which might suggest a growing appetite for insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocations again.

Another private catastrophe bond has come to market recently, as we’ve learned of a new $37.5 million Eclipse Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1A) privately transacted and placed insurance-linked securities (ILS) arrangement, the second such deal from the Eclipse Re transformer so far in 2025.

While 2025 is already breaking issuance records for traditional catastrophe bonds, Artex Risk Solutions believes the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is evolving into a more “significant force” across new risk areas such as casualty and cyber.

Legislation that calls for a Federal Catastrophe Reinsurance Program to be established has been resurrected in the United States Senate, with more support this time around and still a section of the INSURE Act highlighting the importance of capital markets alternatives to reinsurance, such as catastrophe bonds.

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.

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.

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.