Monday is always the first really busy day at the Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-vous and 2026 is no different, with the hotels and conference venues buzzing.
Here's our daily recap of news and interviews from Monday at the 2026 RVS event, keeping to our ILS market-relevant focus.
We spoke with LGT ILS Partners’ Christian Bruns, who told us that institutional investors should not view cat bonds and private reinsurance as competing asset classes.
Howden Re launched Novark Group, a new insurance management, securities admin and transformer venture that promises to modernise core pieces of ILS infrastructure.
Hannover Re's Silke Sehm said this morning that Hannover Re Capital Partners successfully wrote additional non-proportional catastrophe business, with a “lower three-digit million number” of capital raised.
Brittany Baker, VP of Solution Consulting, CyberCube, told us that there is no shortage of investor appetite for cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS), and cyber ILW transactions are still being seen.
Investor interest is increasing in cat bonds and ILS even faster than the substantial issuance growth seen in recent years, according to Mariagiovanna Guatteri, CIO, Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies Inc.
Kathleen Faries, CEO, Artex Capital Solutions, outlined her thoughts on emerging perils and evolving deal structures heading towards 2027, emphasising that rates must remain adequate to keep capital committed.
At an S&P Global Ratings briefing, Maren Josefs, Credit Analyst at the company explained that the big stories in insurance-linked securities has been catastrophe bonds and casualty sidecars this year, but she cautioned the market to remember that investors still don’t like surprises.
More updates from Monte Carlo tomorrow!
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