Insurance linked securities news, ILS news

According to reports from Nepalese news sources, the country’s government Council of Ministers has approved signing a Mandate Agreement for the Nepal Earthquake Catastrophe Bond project with the World Bank.

Hurricane Simon in the Pacific is rapidly intensifying and seen as having a chance of sustaining major hurricane strength when it makes landfall on the Mexico coastline on Sunday, which has brought the $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) parametric catastrophe bond back into focus again.

Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re is bringing the seventh catastrophe bond offering in the annual parametric US earthquake risk series of deals, with an initial $200 million target for an Acorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, Artemis has learned.

US military mutual insurer USAA has returned to the catastrophe bond market to sponsor what will be the 48th cat bond that we have analysed and tracked from the company, with an initial target for $225 million or more in reinsurance from this Residential Reinsurance 2026 Limited (Series 2026-2) issuance, Artemis has learned.

Our latest video features the second panel discussion of the day at our recent Artemis London 2026 catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities conference, a session focused on catastrophe bonds and what the current state of the market means for investor, ILS investment manager and sponsor discipline.

Higher short-term interest rates are providing an additional source of return for ILS, while also reshaping strategy-level return attribution across the hedge fund industry. As macroeconomic dynamics shift which management styles deliver relative performance, Don Steinbrugge, of Agecroft Partners, emphasises that the underlying source of an investment’s return now matters just as much as its […]

We’ve learned that the new Great Wall Re Limited catastrophe bond issuance is $12 million in size, so presumably will provide an equivalent amount of capital markets backed reinsurance to the sponsoring Chinese domestic insurer, PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited.

Catastrophe bond funds structured in the UCITS format have now added more than $2.5 billion of assets in 2026 so far, with the sector nearing $21.8 billion of combined assets under management by the end of September 2026.

Catastrophe risk modelling specialist Karen Clark & Company (KCC), has launched a new version of its US Severe Convective Storm (SCS) model, incorporating a range of advancements that further strengthens the firm’s approach to quantifying losses from one of the weather perils driving a significant share of insured property losses across the country.

Catastrophe bond insurance risk spreads declined by 9.5% during the month of September 2026 as wind seasonality took hold, but with treasury yields having risen the increase to the risk free rate of return on collateral served to offset the impact to the cat bond market coupon available to investors, the latest data on cat […]