Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 4th 2026, 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.

Strategic Risk Solutions, an independent provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, suggests that casualty ILS will breakthrough when platforms offer dependable exit mechanisms providing investors entering longer-tail risk with greater certainty, by embedding capital finality from inception.

In a webinar held this week, executives from specialist insurance-linked securities manager Plenum Investments explained that subordinated insurance debt is a rare category that is benefiting from volatility in government bond markets.

Hannover Re Capital Partners, the Bermuda-based insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform established by global reinsurance firm Hannover Re, is continuing to expand its activities on the island, with new fund infrastructure established to support ILS investment options for clients.

The North America commercial property insurance market has experienced its sharpest decline in rates a decade, according to broker Willis, with wide-spread double-digit price reductions for clients as the soft market ensues and “the multi-year hard market fully reverses.”

Further expansion in the ILS market doesn’t necessarily require venturing beyond property catastrophe risk, according to LGT ILS Partners’ Hilary Paul, who recently highlighted to Artemis, that because traditional reinsurers still hold the vast majority of global catastrophe exposure, directing capital market capacity toward extreme tail risks can complement traditional balance sheets without adding counterparty […]

Nuveen, a US asset manager subsidiary of TIAA, has now completed its acquisition of Schroders in a ~£9.9 billion deal, today setting out a plan to operate separately for 12 to 18 months then realise integration synergies, among which of greatest relevance to our readers private markets is expected to be organised by asset class.

Catastrophe bond issuance was above-average at $948 million for the third-quarter of the year which has served to keep the market on pace to set new records, with total nine-month 2026 issuance reaching a new $18.9 billion high of risk capital analysed and tracked by Artemis, our latest quarterly catastrophe bond market report shows.