The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is in the market to issue its first catastrophe bonds with two offerings totalling $150 million of notes, that are designed to provide $75 million of multi-year parametric earthquake and extreme precipitation disaster risk transfer to each of the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, Artemis can report.
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Aon Securities, the broker-dealer and investment banking arm of the broking giant, believes catastrophe bond market and broader third-party reinsurance capital activities will remain robust through the rest of 2026, according to CEO Richard Pennay.
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Montauk Point Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm that provides independent advisory and strategic advice to third-party risk capital providers, has appointed 35-year insurance and reinsurance veteran Dr. Gero Michel to lead its risk and analytics platform.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line continued to fall at the April 1st renewals and for the United States, broker Guy Carpenter’s index now shows that 2026 is experiencing the sharpest fall in US property cat pricing since 2014.
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Alternative reinsurance capital is reinforcing current reinsurance market trends as total non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets reached $135 billion at year-end 2025, a 19% increase year-on-year.
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Hudson Structured Capital Management (HSCM), the reinsurance, insurtech, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and transportation focused investment manager, has promoted Bernard Opoku, who currently serves as the firm’s Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer to Partner, alongside several other key promotions across the organisation.
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The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures grew by more than $5 billion in capacity terms over the course of full-year 2025, with casualty and non-catastrophe vehicles a key driver of sidecar market expansion, Aon Securities has said.
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RenaissanceRe Capital Partners, the third-party reinsurance capital management and insurance-linked securities (ILS) unit of the Bermuda-headquartered reinsurance firm, has promoted Roger Beach to Vice President in the Business Development and Investors Relations function.
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Catastrophe bond market yields rose slightly through the month of March 2026 as seasonal widening effects resulted in a higher risk spread or discount margin for cat bonds. Which slimmed the year-on-year decline in the coupon to around 13%, the latest data from Plenum Investments shows.
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After breaking all records last year, catastrophe bond market momentum persisted through the first-quarter of 2026, with a significant $6.7 billion of new risk capital analysed and tracked in the period, making Q1 2026 the second most active start to the year in the cat bond market’s history, Artemis’ new quarterly catastrophe bond market report […]
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Consultancy Lane Financial LLC launches its new report on the catastrophe bond market with some good news, its analysis shows the outstanding market yield of non-impaired natural cat bonds is no longer as soft as it was at the end of 2025, but the firm also highlights that investor returns have been eroded by falling […]
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Kin Insurance, the direct to consumer insurtech, appears to have fixed on the target size for its new Hestia Re Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond issuance, we are told, with now $335 million of fully-collateralized named storm reinsurance protection sought from the deal, while pricing has lowered again for some of the notes on offer.
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The Japanese market represents a material opportunity for future expansion in non-cat sidecars as the broader non-cat sidecar market continues to grow through an influx of new sponsors and heightened activity, according to Bill Dubinsky, Managing Director and Chairman of Gallagher Securities.
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Zenkyoren has now secured the targeted $100 million of multi-year collateralized Japanese earthquake reinsurance protection from its new Nakama Re Pte. Ltd. (Series 2026-1) catastrophe bond issuance, with the notes now priced at the mid-point of guidance, this publication can report.
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