Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
More cat bonds priced in the last week and the pipeline shrank somewhat, as is typical over the holidays.
This week, 144A property cat bond surpassed the $20bn issuance milestone in 2025, as the FAIR Plan's giant wildfire cat bond settled.
Beazley secured its latest Fuchsia nat cat bond at below guidance pricing.
Inigo secured its biggest Montoya Re catatsrophe bond to-date.
Progressive grew its one-year aggregate Bonanza cat bond by 79%.
Hannover Re secured its latest 3264 Re retro cat bond.
Groupama got convective storm reinsurance with its new Quercus cat bond.
While, RenaissanceRe doubled its new Mona Lisa Re deal to $400m.
In other stories this week, Abu Dhabi's regulator is asking for feedback on whether it should develop an ILS framework, as well as on a synthetic sidecar concept.
As Howard Hughes Holdings announced it will acquire Vantage, executives Bill Ackman and Ryan Israel highlighted their appreciation of the AdVantage third-party capital unit.
With climate adaptation and resilience growing in prominence as themes, investors cited catastrophe bonds and physical risk insurance contracts among their top picks in a survey.
Competitive dynamics are accentuating renewal softening, analysts suggested.
Etienne Schwartz of Twelve Securis told us that cat bonds are expected to maintain strong momentum into 2026.
Analysts said higher layer property cat renewals will likely be down by more than 20% at 1/1.
OAK Enterprise execs spoke with Artemis to discuss the opportunity they see in writing retro with the backing and support of third-party capital investors
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