reinsurance

Following its entry into the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space through its partnership with Cedar Trace Group, Sage Advisory Services is looking to expand its range of investment solutions. The company aims to offer investors new sources of return with low correlation to traditional capital markets and business cycles.

Hannover Re is back in the catastrophe bond market looking to bolster its North American peak peril retrocession through a new 3264 Re Ltd. (Series 2025-3) issuance that has an initial target of $200 million and one tranche of which utilises a multi-section approach to provide targeted protection, Artemis can report.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending November 23rd 2025, 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.

Reflecting on the impacts of Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness has stressed the importance and effectiveness of responsive disaster risk financing instruments in reducing the country’s debt burden in the aftermath of the hurricane.

Over the last year the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has benefited from strong execution in the catastrophe bond market to lower both its reinsurance attachment point and costs associated with risk transfer.

According to Moody’s, insured losses from U.S. severe convective storm (SCS) events reached $42 billion in the first nine months of 2025, with average per-event costs running 31% higher than the prior decade’s average, setting what the firm describes as a new “normal” for extreme weather.

Groupama, the French mutual insurance and reinsurance company, has returned to the 144A catastrophe bond market and this time is seeking €100 million or more in fully-collateralized convective storm reinsurance protection from the capital markets through a Quercus II Re DAC issuance, Artemis has learned.

A recent report from Barclays Research indicated that current catastrophe bond market dynamics are perceived as being negative for both the reinsurance market and pricing cycle. Lower new cat bond spread multiples seen in Q4 so far indicate a market firing on all cylinders and a protection buying opportunity, but with ramifications for the traditional […]

Today we are delighted to announce the first wave of speakers for our next insurance-linked securities conference. Tickets continue to sell fast for ILS NYC 2026 and with representatives of over 100 organisations already registered we anticipate the Early Bird rate will sell out ahead of schedule, so please get your ticket soon to secure […]

As the reinsurance market continues to expand and adapt to the current wave of technological change, increasing capital diversity is enabling the development of new products. At the same time, data-driven enhancements in modeling tools and risk-analysis processes are encouraging a broader range of investors to back reinsurance, according to Willis Re.