Collateralized reinsurance news

Ernie Garateix, CEO of Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc., the nationally expansive, Florida headquartered property and casualty insurer, anticipates the June reinsurance renewals offering his company a chance to secure incremental capacity and improved pricing.

Hannover Re has reported its full-year 2025 results this morning, with a meaningful increase to net income and clear growth in property and casualty risks, while on the large loss side insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital sources ended up supporting roughly 20% of the large losses it experienced.

The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), a large Canadian institutional retirement fund, saw its investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) rising in value by approximately 9% in 2025, lifting its ILS portfolio to approximately US $1.44 billion.

As the insurance and reinsurance market responds to the growing risk capacity needs of the digital infrastructure and data centre build-out, collateralized insurance-linked securities and parametric risk transfer are playing a role in covering exposures such as correlated power grid events, according to Guy Carpenter’s Jeremy Goodman.

The Eclipse Re Ltd. transformer vehicle has issued its first listed private catastrophe bond notes of the year, with a $100 million Eclipse Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1A) becoming the largest cat bond lite of 2026 so far, Artemis has learned.

Our latest video features the opening panel discussion of the day at Artemis ILS NYC 2026, a session focused on the private insurance-linked securities marketplace, from our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund sector began 2026 with an above-average January, as the average return across ILS funds tracked by the ILS Advisers Fund Index stood at 0.71% for the month.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is planning to call its $1.1 billion of Everglades Re II Ltd. (Series 2024-1) catastrophe bonds in advance of its renewal, to enable it to take advantage of current market conditions and may sponsor issuance of around $600 million of new cat bonds this year to make a saving on […]

Florida’s property insurer of last resort Citizens Property Insurance Corporation began 2026 with 67% less exposure, while the firm also projects it will need $3 billion of traditional reinsurance and / or catastrophe bonds for the 2026 hurricane season.

Everest Group, the global insurance and reinsurance specialist, benefited from a $35 million dividend payment from its Mt. Logan Re Ltd., third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure in 2025, while also earning $7 million of income from its investment into specific Mt. Logan Re cells.