Artemis Newsletter - August 27th 2025

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Web version |  Update preferences |  Forward Artemis Newsletter - August 27th 2025 Artemis News Log Just a few days to go. Register if you want to join us! - Jessica Laird promoted to CEO, Nephila Capital as Majors steps back from leadership - Enstar launches $300m Scaur Hill Re, its first casualty reinsurance sidecar - Cat bond defaults stay low at 2.3% across rated and non-rated issues: S&P - Artemis London 2025: Just one week until the conference - Rising reinsurance capital pressures prices, but discipline to sustain profitability: Morningstar DBRS - Planette develops QubitCast to detect severe weather events up to six months in advance - Artex Axcell Re issues ~$40.6m Japanese private catastrophe bond - All indications point to continued catastrophe bond market growth: AM Best - PartnerRe Capital Management hires Baltesar as Head of Portfolio & Analytics - Property cat still profitable as we enter hard market softening phase: Howden Re - Re/insurers must adapt to multi-capital source, AI and digital world: WTW - MCM Fund I brings private reinsurance investing to new generation of investors: MembersCap's Fox - Cat bonds offer advantages over taxation for tackling rising disaster costs: OECD - Cat bond market assumes more wildfire risk in 2025 than any prior year - Allstate's pre-tax cat loss for current aggregate year slows to reach $2.174bn after July - Property retro "buyer-favourable", supply somewhat constrained: van der Straaten, Antares - Alt capital & ILS an 'increasingly important' component of property cat reinsurance: Berenberg - HSCM Ventures leads $8m Series B for life insurtech Inclined Technologies - Cedar Trace hires Patrick Witteveen as Head of Business Development - Hannover Re to expand direct ILS activities, launch Capital Partners platform in Bermuda - Repeat of 1926 Great Miami hurricane today would be $200bn+ insured loss: KCC - Artex Axcell Re issues $20m Harrogate and $15m Jedburgh private cat bond notes - Cat bonds not pressuring reinsurance pricing, main competition is traditional: J.P. Morgan For continuous coverage in real-time visit Artemis. For details of the latest catastrophe bonds visit our Deal Directory (containing over 1,000 entries.) Featured Conferences & Events Artemis London 2025 - Register to attend,   September 2nd Our annual catastrophe bond and ILS conference returns in London on September 2nd 2025. With space for more people and a new venue this year, it promises to be our biggest London event yet. Register now to secure your place to attend! Future conferences:   Please save these dates for upcoming Artemis conferences: Artemis ILS NYC 2026 - February 6th, 2026, New York City. We will be back at our usual venue in Midtown NYC for our next installment of the ILS NYC event, with space for up to 450 attendees. We'll let you know when tickets are available Reinsurance News Reinsurance News is a our sister service which delivers the reinsurance news that matters directly through our responsive website and by email to your inbox. The Reinsurance News website has over 200k readers every single month and it covers the most important reinsurance news, hand selected by an experienced team of researchers and journalists with years of reinsurance industry experience. Sign up here to receive your daily Reinsurance News. Stay in touch with Artemis Please get in touch if you would like to submit news, events or information for publication. We welcome submission of useful market data which we can publish to help expand your reach. Advertising and sponsorship opportunities are available. With a large audience of 60,000+ readers every month Artemis is the perfect place to showcase your specialty to ILS industry professionals. Contact us for more details. You can unsubscribe from these newsletters at any time using the link at the foot of this email. We hope you won't and promise to only send market update and news, or relevant updates related to our services. Best wishes and enjoy Artemis. Steve Evans. Owner, Editor - Artemis E-Mail: steve@artemis.bm Tel: +44(0)7711-244697 If you enjoy this newsletter and find it useful please pass it on and share it with your colleagues. If you've been forwarded this but want to subscribe, visit artemis.bm.     Our Sponsors               ADVERTISE YOUR BRAND OR SERVICES HERE DEAL DIRECTORY View details of almost 1,000 catastrophe bonds and related ILS deals CHARTS & VISUALISATIONS View our range of catastrophe bond market charts and visualisations CAT BOND MARKET REPORTS Download our quarterly cat bond market reports VIDEOS & PODCASTS Watch video interviews, panel discussions and listen to our podcast EVENTS CALENDAR View details of and register for our next ILS market conferences

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