Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
Super Early Bird tickets are selling fast for our Artemis London 2026 conference (register here).
In the catastrophe bond market this week, we only saw one new addition to the pipeline, in The Hanover's latest Commonweath Re cat bond, but with numerous deals still in the market activity remains brisk.
Florida Citizens priced its one-third upsized $600m new Everglades cat bond deal.
Spinnaker Insurance secured its second cat bond, to provide it with $100m of reinsurance.
TWIA is now targeting up to $750m of protection from its latest Alamo Re cat bond sponsorship.
Travelers is looking to upsize its latest Long Point Re cat bond and it could become the insurer's largest sponsorship yet at $750m.
Mangrove Property Insurance raised the target for its debut cat bond slightly.
Nationwide Mutual is also seeking more reinsurance from its latest cat bond under Aquila Re I.
Settled issuance has now surpassed $10bn in 2025, running just one day behind last year's pace.
In other stories this week, Artemis celebrated its 27th birthday, now having analysed and tracked nearly $220 billion of cat bonds and related ILS.
Hiscox Capital Partners has won a $1bn mandate from Australian investor TCorp.
Executives at our recent roundtable in Bermuda discussed the surging levels of activity in cat bonds and expanding risk appetite of investors.
UCITS cat bond fund returns averaged 1.91% for the year after April, now running at a 10.37% rolling 12-month return.
At the IRLA Congress event in Brighton this week, legacy market executives highlighted the ILS exit opportunity as meaningful and likely to persist.
The Florida State Board of Administration has allocated to life settlements through Miravast again.
Icosa Investments AG is adding experienced ILS investment specialist Raffaele Dell’Amore as a new Portfolio Manager.
Michael Roth of Munich Re discussed the reinsurers role in helping the first ADB cat bonds get to market.
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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