Insurance linked securities news, ILS news

Analysts from investment bank J.P. Morgan have suggested that the willingness to invest additional capital in the reinsurance market could be a more significant factor when it comes to pricing than the total capital volume presently accessible in the market.

Fidelis Insurance has now secured the targeted $75 million in US earthquake retrocessional reinsurance on a collateralized basis through its new Herbie Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1)  catastrophe bond, as the notes have now been priced with the spread finalised within the lower-half of initial guidance, Artemis has learned.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending January 18th 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.

Culpeper Capital Partners is looking to scale its casualty ILS presence as part of a broader move to grow the asset class over the coming years. Moving beyond its inaugural casualty sidecar with QBE Re, firm leaders revealed to Artemis that they are already building a 2026 pipeline that includes a whole-account retrocessional deal and […]

Swiss Re has returned to the catastrophe bond market for its first sponsorship of this year, seeking $125 million or more in peak peril aggregate and subsequent event retrocession covering North American wind and earthquakes from a Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) transaction, Artemis can report.

As per reinsurance broker Howden Re, capacity within the retrocession market was more than sufficient to meet demand at the January renewals, largely due to a combination of retained earnings for insurance-linked securities (ILS) and rated carriers, as well as ILS inflows, and new entrants.

MGIC Investment Corporation is back in the capital markets seeking approximately $323.5 million of mortgage reinsurance through a Home Re 2026-1 Ltd. mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) transaction.

Beazley, the London headquartered specialty insurance and reinsurance company, has appointed its Head of Third-Party Capital initiatives Richard Gray as General Manager of Bermuda, which will see him leading its new cyber insurance-linked securities operations on the island.

US insurer Allstate has announced an estimated pre-tax catastrophe loss for the fourth quarter of 2025 of $209 million, which lifted the total for the current annual aggregate risk period for its catastrophe bonds to $2.757 billion while the run-rate of losses slowed in recent months.

According to Fitch Ratings, recent catastrophe bond and insurance risk letters (LRS) issuances within Latin America represent a strategic opportunity to expand and sophisticate the regions’ insurance debt market.