Best of Artemis, week ending September 7th 2025

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 7th 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 September 7th 2025:

1. Goldman Sachs rebuilds ILS structuring expertise, hires two from Aon / Swiss Re
   Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has hired two experienced catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) structuring specialists, as it looks to expand its capabilities in the space once again.
2. ILS market opportunity abounds, transparency & communication key: Artemis London 2025
   At our Artemis London 2025 conference last week speakers highlighted a catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market full of opportunity, but one where the need for transparency, communication and a continued push towards modernisation are key.
3. Ryan Specialty raises $400m reinsurance sidecar, backed by Flexpoint Ford & Sixth Street
   Ryan Specialty, the international insurance group, has launched a collateralized reinsurance sidecar named Ryan Alternative Capital Re, Ltd. alongside re/insurer AXIS Capital and raised approximately $400 million to fund the structure thanks to backing from investment firms Flexpoint Ford, LLC and Sixth Street.
4. Capital markets key to future insurability and affordability of risk transfer: Swiss Re
   Swiss Re has highlighted the capital efficiency that a modern and layered risk transfer architecture brings to the property and casualty insurance market, seeing the capital markets and investors as now key elements in a chain that is supporting growing volumes of global risks.
5. Reinsurance outlooks adjusted by rating agencies, now range from positive to deteriorating
   Leading rating agencies adjusted their outlooks for the global reinsurance sector yesterday, becoming in general a little more negative for prospects in the space and warning of higher competition. But still, the range of outlooks spans from positive, through stable, to deteriorating, suggesting uneven outcomes and that returns will still be attractive where discipline holds.
6. Alternative capital has not yet reached it’s full capacity, will likely grow: Rousseau, Guy Carpenter
   Alternative capital within the reinsurance market has “not yet reached its full capacity,” according to Guy Carpenter’s CEO of EMEA and Global Capital Solutions, Laurent Rousseau, who said that his firm anticipates further growth of the ILS and capital markets backed capacity.
7. Nephila Capital leadership – Our focus is driving value for investors and cedants
   Speaking with Artemis, the leadership of Nephila Capital, one of the world’s largest and longest-standing insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers, explained their focus remains serving investors and being a valued trading partner with cedants.
8. MultiStrat casualty ILS expansion accelerates with new investor-backed reinsurer and hires
   MultiStrat, the specialist underwriter, reinsurance investment facilitator and casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) company, is accelerating its expansion having secured a new capital investment by a large institutional asset manager in a reinsurance vehicle it will manage and announcing more hires.
9. Collateralized retro capacity increasingly important for some major reinsurers: S&P
   Alternative capital remains a critical source of retrocessional reinsurance capacity for some of the biggest reinsurers in the market, with it seen to increase in importance for some of the top-tier companies over the last year, S&P Global Ratings has said.
10. Preserving ILS balance between cedent support & investor reward essential: Albertini, Leadenhall
    The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has reached a healthier equilibrium, but it is essential to preserve the balance between ensuring cedents are robustly supported and investors are appropriately awarded for putting their capital at risk, Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners told Artemis.

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 40+ new articles published in the last week.

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