Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending March 30th 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.
Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending March 30th 2025:
- Hannover Re renews Cumulus Re parametric cloud outage cat bond at larger $20m
Hannover Re has successfully sponsored a renewal of its landmark parametric cloud outage catastrophe bond, securing $20 million in retrocessional cyber reinsurance protection covering cloud outage events from a new Cumulus Re (Series 2025-1) issuance, with the support of Parametrix. - Berenberg sees alternative capital, cyclicality as risks to “reinsurance mega trend”
Analysts at investment bank Berenberg are highlighting the potential for a “reinsurance mega trend” period of sustained earnings growth to emerge that overshadows the more typical cycle, but warns that expansion of alternative capital and the interest of institutional investors such as pension funds could prevent this occurring. - Private ILS strategies, primed for expansion and growth? – ILS NYC 2025 video
This video features an expert panel discussing investment trends in private insurance-linked securities (ILS) at our Artemis ILS NYC 2025 conference, which was held in New York on February 7th 2025. - ILS fund return dispersion high again in Feb, on CA wildfire & Helene flood losses: ILS Advisers
The ILS Advisers Fund Index has reported a +0.17% return for February 2025, but the company has highlighted a second consecutive month where there was a broad dispersion between ILS fund returns and performance, as effects from losses due to the California wildfires continued to flow through the market. - Allstate’s aggregate cat bonds look safer as end of risk period end nears, Feb cat loss low
Allstate reported a relatively low level of catastrophe losses for February, meaning qualifying losses under its aggregate Sanders Re catastrophe bonds remain a reasonable distance from attachment ponts, we are told, so with the annual risk period nearing its end these notes are now being viewed as safer, according to sources. - Plenty of headroom left in higher reinsurance attachments, despite inflation: J.P. Morgan
Equity analysts from investment bank J.P. Morgan came away from a recent visit to companies in the London insurance and reinsurance market with the impression that underwriters feel there is plenty of headroom left in the higher attachment points still installed across the sector, despite inflationary influences on losses. - Howden adds investment consulting as it agrees to acquire Barnett Waddingham
Howden, the global insurance, reinsurance and advisory group, has now added institutional investment consultancy to its growing service offering, having agreed to acquire UK professional services firm Barnett Waddingham. - ILS appeal lies in being the only truly uncorrelated asset class: Gibson, Schroders Capital
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) continue to stand out as a compelling asset class, not just for their strong returns, but for their unique ability to remain uncorrelated with broader financial markets, according to Mark Gibson, Senior Investment Director, ILS, at Schroders Capital. - Cat bonds attractive. Elevated risk premia, robust demand could drive record issuance: Kepler
The catastrophe bond market continues to present a compelling investment opportunity, with elevated risk premiums, strong demand from insurers and investors, and favourable pricing dynamics likely to drive record issuance in 2025, according to analysis by Kepler Absolute Hedge, a research and data-led provider of insight into hedge fund strategies. - Kin highlights “substantially lower pricing” of new Hestia Re 2025-1 cat bond
Direct-to-consumer insurtech company, Kin Insurance has hailed the substantial improvement in pricing for its latest catastrophe bond issuance, the $300 million Hestia Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) transaction, the company’s largest cat bond yet.
This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days. There were 30 new articles published in the last week.
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