reinsurance

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.

Blackstone has again demonstrated its appetite to source insurance and reinsurance-linked opportunities for private capital clients with a newly announced life and annuities flow reinsurance sidecar-like structure established for F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. and backed by $1 billion of capital from Blackstone managed funds.

As per a new report from reinsurance broker Gallagher Re, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions can significantly contribute to reducing the time needed to create new catastrophe bond structures, which may ultimately enhance the confidence of prospective investors in the market.

Insurance industry losses from the severe hailstorm that struck the Calgary area of Canada on August 5, 2024, are estimated to have reached CAD $3.29 billion, according to CatIQ, Canada’s insured loss and exposure indices provider.

W. R. Berkley Corporation, the US headquartered insurance holding company, has continued to make greater use of its Lifson Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar structure through the second-quarter of 2025, with written premiums ceded to the sidecar now up by 76% year-on-year for the first-half, at $362 million.