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While the broader catastrophe bond market often adopts a wait-and-see posture until the Atlantic hurricane season passes, the current 2026 landscape suggests that the most compelling value may be found during this window of peak uncertainty, according to Ethan Powell, Principal & Chief Investment Officer of Brookmont Capital Management, LLC.

Broker Marsh Risk has revealed that property rates declined by 9% globally in the opening quarter of 2026, repeating the same trend seen in Q4 2025, with double-digit decreases recorded in major regions such as the Pacific, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Broker Aon states that intensifying  flood and drought patterns are reshaping risk profiles across global insurance and reinsurance markets, according to its 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight (CCI) report.

Speaking during the Chubb first-quarter earnings call today, CEO Evan Greenberg called out supply-demand factors related to capital in the insurance and reinsurance industry, as well as high levels of intermediation cost, as softening the property insurance market at a pace he called “dumb”.

Catastrophe data aggregator PERILS has released the 2026 edition of its Industry Exposure Database (IED), providing USD $150 trillion of markets sums insured exposed to natural perils for 21 different countries, with like-for-like exposures also rising 4.7% year-on-year at constant exchange rates.

Although insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance have traditionally involved multiple parties, the supporting infrastructure for both has continued to be disjointed. In light of this, the concept of a shared platform and a cohesive data layer for contracts would not merely enhance efficiency; it would also establish a foundation for alignment and trust throughout the […]

The first two parametric catastrophe bonds to be issued directly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on behalf of its member countries the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan are now targeted for a slight upsizing to as much as $80 million each, while the pricing for the risk margin each set of notes will pay has […]

Acrisure Re, the reinsurance and insurance division of global fintech Acrisure, has integrated its Capital and Captives division to create an end-to-end platform, as the company seeks to meet growing demand for alternative risk solutions.

New data released by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) shows that the total cost of extreme weather events that impacted Australia throughout 2025 generated AUD $4.8 billion in insured losses in 2025, up 727% on the previous year, as claim numbers spiked to 294,000, of which over $4.1 billion came from Queensland alone.

Tower Hill Insurance Exchange has now successfully priced its latest catastrophe bond to secure the two-third upsized $375 million of fully-collateralized reinsurance protection against named storm losses in Florida from the Winston Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) issuance, while each of the three tranches of notes priced well below their initial guidance ranges, Artemis can report.