White Mountains reports rising Outrigger Re sidecar income after Q3
After the third-quarter of 2025, White Mountains has reported that its investment into the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar that supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark has generated pre-tax income of $40 million from the current underwriting year, up on last year. By September 30th 2025, the firm's investment read the full article →
Liberty Latin America anticipates $81m parametric payout for hurricane Melissa
Liberty Latin America, one of the largest communications and entertainment service providers in the region, is anticipating around an $81 million payout from its parametric windstorm insurance after hurricane Melissa activated its coverage in the Caribbean. Communications specialist Liberty Latin America has operations and infrastructure across Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and read the full article →
KCC estimates privately insured hurricane Melissa losses at $2.4bn
Catastrophe modelling firm Karen Clark & Company (KCC) is the latest to issue an estimate for the insurance industry loss from recent major hurricane Melissa, pegging the total at US $2.4 billion. KCC explained that based on its high-resolution KCC Caribbean Hurricane Model, the $2.4 billion estimate includes the privately insured read the full article →
SCOR Investment Partners surpasses $5bn insurance-linked securities AUM
SCOR Investment Partners has announced a new milestone for its dedicated insurance-linked securities funds platform, surpassing US $5 billion in ILS assets under management, representing a 14% increase in AUM over the first nine months of 2025. SCOR Investment Partners is the specialist asset management arm of the French reinsurance group read the full article →
Hiscox Re & ILS property cat growth to slow, cessions to third-party capital may increase: CFO
Hiscox CFO Paul Cooper said this morning during an analyst call that while growth into property catastrophe reinsurance may slow for the group in 2026, given the rate environment, the company may elect to cede more to third-party capital as it continues to be able to attract investors. Commenting on the read the full article →
Cat bond risk spreads likely to decrease 10-15%, market remains very healthy: Plenum
Speaking during a recent webinar, Dirk Schmelzer, Senior Portfolio Manager for ILS at Plenum Investments AG, outlined that while the organisation expects another decrease in catastrophe bond risk spreads of around 10–15%, the market remains very healthy and is expected to expand further in both size and the range of read the full article →
Hurricane Melissa insured loss up to $2.5bn, says Cotality. Jamaica’s PM highlights protection gap
Hurricane Melissa is only estimated to have caused insured losses in a range from US $1 billion to US $2.5 billion in Jamaica, according to catastrophe modeller Cotality, with the total expected pegged at US $1.5 billion, while the economic impacts are far higher demonstrating the protection gap. Cotality said that read the full article →
Hiscox ILS AUM dips to $1.3bn on planned returns of capital
Following a strong first-half of the year in which it raised new capital from investors Hiscox ILS, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment focused arm of Hiscox Group, saw its ILS assets under management dip to $1.3 billion in the third-quarter after planned returns of capital to its ongoing investors. As we read the full article →
First $20bn catastrophe bond year now in sight for 144A & private issuance tracked by Artemis
With the catastrophe bond market pipeline growing for the fourth-quarter, Artemis is on course to track its first $20 billion year of issuance in 2025, as our extensive and long-standing data set of Rule 144A and private cat bond transactions now has that milestone in sight. The $20 billion of issuance read the full article →
Lancashire expects favourable retrocession buying conditions for 1/1: CUO Gregory
Speaking during today's third-quarter earnings call for specialty insurance and reinsurance group Lancashire Holdings, the firm's Chief Underwriting Officer Paul Gregory said he expects the company will be able to secure broader and more competitively priced retrocession at the January 2026 renewals. Lancashire is always a source of robust commentary on read the full article →
