Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
First speakers announced for Artemis London 2026.
Issuance continues apace in the catastrophe bond market with records now in sight for this quarter and H1 (add issued to the pipeline figures from this chart to see the latest projected H1 total).
This week, Everest returned with a $530m target for retro from new Kilimanjaro cat bond series.
The Massachusetts MPIUA successfully secured its targeted $150m Mayflower Re cat bond.
NJM Insurance secured the upsized $250m of reinsurance from its new Lower Ferry Re cat bond.
Mercury Insurance raised its target for California fire cover from its new Luca Re cat bond to $125m-$175m.
Year-to-date UCITS cat bond funds averaged a 2.28% return by May 29th, according to Plenum data.
We published the full report from our recent ILS focused roundtable event in Bermuda, download a copy here.
In other stories this week, We reported that giant pension CalPERS had some room to grow its ILS allocation, given bigger commitments made.
Mexico's government doubled the size of its parametric disaster insurance arrangement at its recent renewal.
Euler ILS Partners appointed former senior Swiss Re executive Martin Bisping as the new Chairman of its Board of Directors.
Jason Bolding, Global CEO of Gallagher Securities, told us that the new Arthur Re platform is delivering on its promise of streamlined issuance of industry-loss trigger cat bonds.
CSU lowered the number of storms it forecasts for the 2026 hurricane season, while the landfall probabilities it gives fell as well.
Ian Beaton, CEO of Ark, told an investor day that the casualty market faces a wall of investor interest.
New Zealand’s Natural Hazards Commission grew its reinsurance tower to $12.3bn, a roughly 20% increase.
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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