Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
Two new cat bonds joined the 2026 market pipeline this week.
First, Aetna returned with its regular Vitality Re, seeking $250 million of health care related reinsurance from the capital markets.
Then, GeoVera Nova insurers are seeking $350 million in US earthquake reinsurance protection from a new Veraison Re deal.
We analysed Artemis' 2025 cat bond issuance data to highlight some of the new annual records that were set in the landmark year.
TD Insurance successfully secured C$115 million of annual aggregate reinsurance from its new cat bond.
Lane Financial gave a forecast for the year ahead of a total return of just 6% after expected losses for cat bonds.
This week we revealed the agenda topics and the final four expert speakers for our upcoming ILS NYC 2026 conference.
In other stories this week, assets under management in UCITS cat bond funds reached $19.12bn at the end of 2025, indicating growth of more than $5.3bn in the last year.
Schroders Capital's Stephan Ruoff told us that attractive performance, diversification and relative value are all helping to grow the ILS market.
QBE Re sponsored its first casualty reinsurance sidecar vehicle, securing over $550 million in fully collateralised quota share reinsurance through George Street Re.
Guy Carpenter has announced the launch of a global Sidecar Center of Excellence (COE), which will be led by Ed Hochberg, Global Risk Solutions Leader.
The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures grew to a new high of $19.6 billion, according to Aon Securities.
Moody's Ratings said that reinsurance programme structures are expected to remain largely unchanged in 2026.
Howden Re said industry loss warranties (ILWs) are expected to return to more normalised growth in 2026, as the January 1st reinsurance renewals showed rates falling by 10% to 20%.
Ark renewed its collateralized reinsurance sidecar Outrigger Re for the 2026 calendar year at a meaningfully smaller $70 million in size.
Gallagher Securities said recent cyber cat bonds placed appeared to come without so much, or perhaps any, of the innovation premium paid in prior deals.
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 hope you have a safe & relaxing weekend.
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