Here's our latest Friday wrap-up of key news from the week.
At the start of this week we opened up registration for our next conference. ILS NYC 2027 will be held on February 5th next year. Already more than half of the Super Early Bird tickets are sold, so register soon to take advantage of that discounted rate.
We also published our brand new report analysing Q3 2026 catastrophe bond issuance.
Hurricane Polo made landfall in Mexico, but the central pressure had risen to levels that would not trouble the country's IBRD cat bond.
Lane Financial said that the catastrophe bond soft market is not yet at 2017 levels, but it could last another year.
We published the first video from our recent Artemis London 2026 conference, a session on the Lloyd's ILS structure London Bridge.
Jefferies analysts said that reinsurance rate declines may slow by 2028, but that a floor in pricing may not be found until 2030.
The average ILS fund performance reached 1.39% in August and cat bond funds had a particularly strong month, ILS Advisers said.
In other stories this week, Hannover Re Capital Partners has established a new investment fund structure and an SPI transformer in Bermuda.
Generali’s aggregate reinsurance protection has come into focus, as the company said its losses were nearing its budget and the restructured treaty has a lower franchise deductible.
The Victory Pioneer CAT Bond Fund has now grown by over $1 billion in assets through 2026 year-to-date.
Stone Ridge Asset Management's most cat bond focused mutual fund strategy has reached a milestone of $5 billion in assets under management.
Brazil’s regulator has proposed reforms to its LRS regime, the use of sovereign cat bonds and parametric risk transfer to bolster the country's natural disaster protection.
The OECD has highlighted how smaller catastrophe bonds can be useful for sovereign and local risk transfer, where smaller deal sizes are required.
Marsh launched a platform to help investors and life companies establish efficient reinsurance and sidecar structures.
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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