Reinsurance linked investment

UCITS catastrophe bond funds returned 0.35% on average through the period of February 27th to March 27th 2026, which has lifted their year-to-date performance to 1.35%, according to new data from the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending April 5th 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.

Aon Securities, the broker-dealer and investment banking arm of the broking giant, believes catastrophe bond market and broader third-party reinsurance capital activities will remain robust through the rest of 2026, according to CEO Richard Pennay.

Montauk Point Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm that provides independent advisory and strategic advice to third-party risk capital providers, has appointed 35-year insurance and reinsurance veteran Dr. Gero Michel to lead its risk and analytics platform.

Alternative reinsurance capital is reinforcing current reinsurance market trends as total non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets reached $135 billion at year-end 2025, a 19% increase year-on-year.

Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has promoted Bernard Opoku, who currently serves as the firm’s Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer to Partner, alongside several other key promotions across the organisation.

The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures grew by more than $5 billion in capacity terms over the course of full-year 2025, with casualty and non-catastrophe vehicles a key driver of sidecar market expansion, Aon Securities has said.

Catastrophe bond market yields rose slightly through the month of March 2026 as seasonal widening effects resulted in a higher risk spread or discount margin for cat bonds. Which slimmed the year-on-year decline in the coupon to around 13%, the latest data from Plenum Investments shows.

After breaking all records last year, catastrophe bond market momentum persisted through the first-quarter of 2026, with a significant $6.7 billion of new risk capital analysed and tracked in the period, making Q1 2026 the second most active start to the year in the cat bond market’s history, Artemis’ new quarterly catastrophe bond market report […]

Consultancy Lane Financial LLC launches its new report on the catastrophe bond market with some good news, its analysis shows the outstanding market yield of non-impaired natural cat bonds is no longer as soft as it was at the end of 2025, but the firm also highlights that investor returns have been eroded by falling […]