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The Mangrove Risk Solutions private insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform operated by Marsh McLennan and reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has issued another private cat bond lite deal, as a roughly $22.43 million Mangrove Risk Solutions Bermuda Ltd. (Series 2025-C1) transaction has come to market, Artemis has learned.

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), the largest municipal utility operating in the United States, has scaled back its latest catastrophe bond issuance, with the company now targeting $100 million of wildfire protection from its 123 Lights Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) deal, down from earlier guidance of up to $150 million, Artemis […]

Aspen, the global re/insurer, saw fee income earned for managing third-party investor capital rising faster still in the second-quarter of 2025, as third-party, ILS and alternative reinsurance capital management unit Aspen Capital Markets continued to expand its footprint.

Munich Re, the global reinsurance company, is continuing to enjoy an attractive market environment, its CEO Joachim Wenning explained this morning. But the reinsurer is focusing on profitability and portfolio optimisation with some reductions, while pricing is seen as still largely compensation for higher loss estimates.

This morning we are pleased to announce a keynote speech from the Bank of England and also to reveal the agenda outline for our upcoming catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference, Artemis London 2025. Held in London on September 2nd, there are just a few weeks to go. Register to attend here.

Fermat Capital Management has shuttered the long-standing GAM FCM Cat Bond Fund, an offshore strategy it took over as part of its recent separation with asset manager GAM, with substantially all of the investors having now moved to its newer offshore Fermat Cat Bond Fund, Artemis can report.

The new aggregate reinsurance arrangement purchased for 2025 by European headquartered re/insurer Zurich has been disclosed as a $400 million layer of protection, although with only $350 million placed. In addition, it is now clear the company has extended its top-layer North America earthquake swap protection.

White Mountains reported that in the first six months of 2025, its investment into the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, that supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark, was impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires, which contributed to a pre-tax income of just $0.3 million for the sidecar in the period, as well as […]

Conditions in the Atlantic tropics now look more favourable than they did one month ago, which has led Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) to slightly increase its forecast for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with activity levels now anticipated to be around 15% above normal.

The overall yield of the catastrophe bond market has begun its seasonal decline over the last month as the typical hurricane season spread tightening regime set in, according to cat bond fund manager Plenum Investments.