Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending April 20th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish.
Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm, week ending April 20th 2025:
- Texas FAIR Plan set for cat bond debut with $200m Bluebonnet Re 2025-2
The first catastrophe bond for the Texas FAIR Plan Association (TFPA) is now in the market, with the insurer of last resort targeting $200 million or more in multi-peril reinsurance from the capital markets with its debut Bluebonnet Re Ltd. (Series 2025-2) issuance. - Hannover Re fronted more collateralised reinsurance participations for investors in 2024
Hannover Re’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) market facilitation activities continued to expand in 2024, with the number of collateralised reinsurance participations fronted for investors rising, while its catastrophe bond fronting also grew to a new record level. - Cat bond market records continue to fall as issuance accelerates in 2025
Catastrophe bond market issuance has already set a new record for the first-four months of the year in 2025, even with half the month of April still to run and billions more in issuance scheduled to settle before May, which has the potential to make this the busiest four-month stretch ever for the sector. - Brookmont exploring options to bring cat bond ETF to Europe: Report
Brookmont Capital Management, LLC is reportedly looking at options to bring its US listed catastrophe bond ETF to Europe, which would expand the universe of investors able to allocate to the firm’s cat bond strategy. - Nephila Capital promotes Richardson to Head of Underwriting
Nephila Capital, the specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager unit of Markel, has promoted Bermuda-based employee Mark Richardson to the position of Head of Underwriting. - Investor appetite for cat bonds grows amid market volatility: Guatteri, SRILIAC
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS) as a reliable source of yield, diversification, and macroeconomic resilience, according to Mariagiovanna Guatteri, CEO of Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Advisors Corporation (SRILIAC). - Acrisure Re hires Romeo & ILW specialist Gordon from Aon in Bermuda
Acrisure Re, the reinsurance broking division of global firm Acrisure, has made some key hires in Bermuda, taking Roman Romeo, who joins the company as Head of Acrisure Re Bermuda, as well as Barry Gordon, a specialist in broking industry-loss warranty (ILW) instruments, from rival Aon. - Euler ILS Partners hires Loosley as Head of Capital Formation and Strategic Initiatives
Euler ILS Partners, the specialist Swiss insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has hired experienced capital raising specialist Alexander Loosley to its Executive Board, as Head of Capital Formation and Strategic Initiatives. - Ambac’s Cirrata entered 2025 with over $1.5bn of third-party capacity
Insurance holding company Ambac Financial Group, Inc. saw its Cirratta insurance distribution division enter 2025 with more than $1.5 billion of third-party capacity, sourced from a range of reinsurance market participants and third-party investors. - Webinar: Cat Bond and ILS Market Conditions at Mid-Year 2025. Register to watch
Artemis has partnered with Computershare to host a live webinar on June 17th 2025, in which our industry expert speakers will discuss conditions in the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at mid-year 2025.
This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days. There were 26 new articles published in the last week.
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