Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
This week, the Artemis Deal Directory hit a new milestone, with now over $200bn of cat bonds and related transactions featured.
Cat bond market activity continues apace...
Chubb is targeting $150m of cyber reinsurance, with a new offering that includes the first annual aggregate tranche.
QBE is sponsoring a new $300m Bridge Street Re international peak peril deal.
A $200m Meritage Re cat bond is also now in the market for GeoVera and SafePort.
The California FAIR Plan upsized the target for its debut cat bond to as much as $500m.
Farmers is now seeking up to $400m of reinsurance from its latest Topanga Re deal.
Beazley raised the target to $280m for its latest cyber cat bond.
For The Hartford's latest cat bond, the target size remains the same but price guidance has dropped.
Migdal Insurance secured its debut Israel earthquake cat bond.
In other stories this week, the first UCITS exchange traded cat bond fund, managed by King Ridge Capital, was launched with a lead market marker.
Shuriken Capital Management LLC is launching as a new insurance-linked securities investment manager.
Panellists at the 2025 Florida Chamber Annual Insurance Summit said rates are heading down 10-15% for US Nationwide accounts at the 1/1 renewals, while cat bond rates are down as much as double that.
Caterina Technologies, Inc. hired senior Swiss Re ILS focused product and strategy leader Anthony Russo.
Wildfire cat bonds are poised to grow as the market adopts impriving risk models and structures advance.
ILS funds had their best October on record, according to the ILS Advisers Index.
We also published another video from our last London ILS conference, a session focused on modernisation and liquidity.
Twelve Securis said the relative value of the ILS asset class remains compelling for investors with structural improvements set to persist.
The PGGM / PFZW ILS target allocation size for its investment into the PartnerRe operated Huygens sidecar structure has been meaningfully increased.
Finally, if you haven't seen them, Artemis has a wealth of data and analytics on the catastrophe bond and broader ILS market. View our charts and Deal Directory.
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We'll be back next week with more regular coverage.
We hope you have a safe & relaxing weekend.
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