reinsurance

Keeping reinsurance attachment points stable at their current levels where they had been reset to during the recent hard market is seen as the most critical factor in reinsurance profitability, with analysts from Berenberg stating this is equivalent to a 20% to 30% benefit in terms of pricing.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 3rd 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.

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Protection (UNDRR) has published details of a proposal for a high-level Disaster Resilience Adaptation Financing (DRAF) structure that features an insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicle, to support disaster risk insurance coverage and resilience adaptation financing.

CelsiusPro, the parametric insurtech, has announced that it has appointed 15-year industry veteran Isa Ennadifi, formerly of global insurers Allianz and AXA and reinsurer SCOR, as its new Group Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO).

AXA XL, the commercial P&C underwriting arm of AXA Group, grew its gross reinsurance premiums written by 11% through the first-half of 2025, with alternative capital sources from third party and ILS investors supporting this expansion of the business.

Having purchased aggregate retrocessional reinsurance and secondary peril protection earlier this year after the California wildfires, reinsurer Conduit Re intends to continue evolving its retrocession strategy in 2026, to better protect against these types of events, its CEO Neil Eckert explained this week.

Catastrophe bond funds have outpaced private ILS funds included in the ILS Advisers Fund Index for the first-half of 2025 and across the group of 37 constituent insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds tracked by the Index, the average return for the six months was 2.05%.

US primary insurer Allstate has purchased a new aggregate reinsurance cover for its US homeowners business at the mid-year renewals, adding what is a new protection feature for the company that covers events greater than $1 million and will provide $325 million of placed aggregate limit, across a $500 million layer excess of a $3.5 […]

Everest Group, the global insurance and reinsurance specialist, acknowledged rising competition across reinsurance, but its CEO Jim Williamson highlighted that pricing on its mid-year renewal portfolio was roughly flat, with preferential rates and terms achieved, while he sees the property catastrophe market as still disciplined and the market as still “very hard”.

Aon has announced some senior promotions within its Reinsurance Solutions division, with Andrew Laing to become UK CEO for Reinsurance and Rupert Moore taking on a new role as CEO of Reinsurance for Asia Pacific and Chairman of the Strategy and Technology Group for that region.