Artemis Monte Carlo Rendezvous Executive Roundtable 2025
Welcome to Artemis' 2025 Monte Carlo Rendezvous Executive Roundtable, during which nine leaders and experts from across the insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance sector discussed the current state and future prospects of the market. In partnership with SCOR Investment Partners and Vantage Risk, the 2025 Artemis Monte Carlo Executive Roundtable report read the full article →
ILS must expand into casualty to compete with traditional reinsurance: Ecclesia Re
In order for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to succeed and truly compete with traditional reinsurance capacity, it must expand into casualty, which is why Ecclesia Re, the specialist reinsurance broking arm of Ecclesia Group, is placing such strong emphasis on this area. Artemis spoke with Jens Ziser and former Securis read the full article →
Property cat bloom is off the rose. Margin remains, depending on 1/1 feeding frenzy: Berkley
In property catastrophe reinsurance "the bloom is off the rose" according to Rob Berkley, President and CEO of W. R. Berkley Corporation, who during an earnings call yesterday cautioned that while margin does remain in property cat, the potential for a "feeding frenzy" at the 1/1 2026 renewals may change read the full article →
ARC makes $5.4m parametric payout to support Mozambique’s climate disaster response
The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, a provider of parametric disaster insurance products to countries and other entities in Africa, has made a combined parametric insurance payout of just over $5.4 million to support Mozambique’s response to the 2024/25 drought and to Tropical Cyclone Chido. According to the announcement, the Government read the full article →
Fortitude Re and Carlyle launch reinsurance sidecar, T&D Holdings also invests
A new reinsurance sidecar structure has been launched to support business underwritten by Fortitude Re, as another major player looks to efficient sidecar capital vehicles to support and enhance its business. Fortitude Re has worked with its key backers, global investment firm Carlyle and T&D Holdings, the parent to Japanese insurance read the full article →
Vantage Risk building a “mosaic of capital” as investors look beyond property cat: McKeown
As investor appetite continues to broaden beyond property catastrophe, Vantage Risk is building a “mosaic of capital providers,” matching different investors with different risks, from short-tail cat exposures to long-tail casualty and credit lines, according to Chris McKeown, Chief Executive, Reinsurance, ILS, and Innovation. Speaking with Artemis around the key reinsurance read the full article →
Man AHL launches awaited UCITS strategy, the Man Systematic Cat Bonds fund
Man Group, a global independent alternative and active investment management firm, has now launched its awaited UCITS catastrophe bond fund managed under the Man AHL brand, with the Man Systematic Cat Bonds fund having become operational earlier this month, Artemis can report. We first revealed back in February 2025 that the read the full article →
UCITS catastrophe bond fund assets hit $17.73bn after Q3, now up 28%+ in 2025
The UCITS catastrophe bond fund sector has continued to expand through the latest quarter of record, adding more than 3% in assets under management across the group of 17 UCITS cat bond funds, to reach a new high of almost $17.73 billion after September 2025. Year-to-date, to the end of Q3, read the full article →
Hannover Re’s E+S Rück sees catastrophe reinsurance demand rising, ILS opportunity
Irrespective of lower claims experience over the last year in natural catastrophe reinsurance business, Hannover Re’s German subsidiary E+S Rückversicherung AG has said that it expects demand for property catastrophe reinsurance will continue to rise, while insurance-linked securities (ILS) business is also seen as an area of opportunity for the read the full article →
As world fragments, more reinsurance risk transfer capacity required: GC’s Rousseau
The insurance and reinsurance industry must push the boundaries of risk taking, an audience heard in Baden-Baden yesterday, as broker Guy Carpenter's annual Reinsurance Symposium highlighted the stabilising force that risk transfer capital and capacity exerts on the world. This year’s theme of Guy Carpenter’s symposium at the annual Baden-Baden event read the full article →
