Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
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This week the only 144A deal offered at this time, the LADWP's 123 Lights Re wildfire cat bond was priced and settled at $100m in size, with the spread finalised at the low-end.
We reported that catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format experienced their best month of 2025 so far in July.
Bermuda continued to see strong registration numbers of new catastrophe bond, ILS and alternative or third-party reinsurance capital related entities through the first-half of 2025.
Swiss Re said the catastrophe bond asset class continued to deliver for its investors through the first-half of 2025.
We also covered Pool Re's leadership saying its third terror catastrophe bond distances the taxpayer from potential losses, while placing risk back into the private markets.
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In other stories this week, AM Best and Guy Carpenter projected that ILS capital will grow 7% this year, to reach $114bn.
Swiss Re's CEO Andreas Berger said that margins were particularly attractive for natural catastrophe risks in recent renewal rounds.
The Vesttoo fraud saga came back into the headlines, as the bankruptcy trustee filed lawsuits against Aon and Mckinsey Israel.
Beazley CEO Adrian Cox said there is a fundamental difference between now and the prolonged soft market of 2010 to 2018.
RenaissanceRe Capital Partners saw its third-party investor capital under management surpass the $8 billion milestone for the first time ever.
B.P. Marsh & Partners Plc, Accord Investments and RSP backed a new collateralised reinsurance vehicle named Gambit Re.
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