Our news and analysis from the last week
Artemis Newsletter - March 4th 2026 | | |  - Florida Citizens plans to call $1.1bn of cat bonds. Expects to save on a partial replacement - Broadening the investable ILS universe through proprietary catastrophe modelling: Swiss Re - Chubb cedes more premium to ABR Re in 2025 as overall earnings benefit grows - AFME responds to EU's climate resilience framework with call for expanded ILS & cat bond use - Casualty sidecars surge in Bermuda as investors pivot to longer-duration yields: Fitch - Florida Citizens entered 2026 with 67% less exposure, sees $3bn reinsurance / cat bond need - Zurich / Beazley agree £8.1bn acquisition terms. Business as usual for Beazley's cyber ILS plans - Parametric pools ARC, CCRIF, PCRIC, SEADRIF to explore joint reinsurance platform - Nephila Capital fund management revenues rose 68% to $159.2m for Markel in 2025 - Hong Kong to move forwards with tax exemption for ILS investments - Elementum Advisors grows ILS AUM to $3.8bn, despite White Mountains investment declining - Munich Re names Leonie Schubert as new Global Head of Capital Partners - RenRe third-party capital AUM surpassed $9bn for first time, then dipped on capital returns - Reinsurance capital build-up means Berkshire Hathaway expects to write less premium: Abel - Tokio Marine targets new $100m Kizuna Re quake cat bond sponsorship from Singapore - Everest earned $35m dividend and $7m investment income from Mt. Logan Re in 2025 - Swiss Re CEO on alternative capital leverage, value-chain reimagination, AI, cycle management - PERILS raises Queensland & New South Wales SCS losses 11% to AU $2.95bn - Robust cat bond activity, global demand to sustain spread levels in 2026: SCOR Investment Partners - Swiss Re reports strong profits, stable renewals, reduces external nat cat retro - Primary insurers to bear more impact from 2026 winter storm losses than reinsurers: AM Best - Photon Re cat bond a 'natural evolution' of Lumen Re's risk-transfer strategy: CUO Sapelza - Bid-heavy demand, tightening cat bond spreads persisted in secondary market: Swiss Re - Cat bond market flexibility & pricing creating good opportunities for American Integrity: CEO - Northern Re, aligning institutional capital with cedent objectives via integrated reinsurance platforms - Munich Re slashes retrocession, scraps sidecars, shows ambition to retain reinsurance profits - PERILS pegs Victoria bushfire insured market loss at AU $786m - Slide's recent $320m Purple Re cat bond cost risk-adjusted down 20%+ YoY: CEO Lucas - Universal has 90% of 1st-event cat tower placed, secures new multi-year reinsurance: CEO - Cohen & Company raises €481.5m for subordinated insurance debt funds - Deployable ILS capital has risen faster for Hiscox, expected to keep growing: CEO Aki Hussain - IFSCA to send SPI sidecar proposals to Indian government: Chairman K. Rajaraman - Northern Re's platform scales to $325m capacity following $150m capital raise - Allstate secures $1.2bn reinsurance with new Sanders Re cat bonds, its largest placement ever - Hiscox Capital Partners grows ILS AUM to $1.5bn, secured $330m of inflows over last year 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 2026: September 1st Our annual catastrophe bond and ILS conference returns to London on September 1st 2026. Please save the date! | 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. | Stay in touch with Artemis | | | | |
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