Catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format continued to expand their combined assets under management (AUM) through the first-quarter, surpassing the milestone $20 billion in February before declining slightly to just under $19.8 billion by the end of March 2026. Catastrophe bond funds grew strongly through 2025, adding roughly $5.3 billion
The Florida Retirement System Pension Plan, which is administered by the Florida State Board of Administration, saw its allocation to insurance-linked securities funds and reinsurance strategies rising to make up 1% of total pension fund assets by the end of 2025, which equated to around $2.23 billion invested. The Florida
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has its first catastrophe bond offerings in the market, with two $75 million issuances that each target parametric earthquake and extreme precipitation disaster risk financing from the capital markets for the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. We revealed on Friday that the first catastrophe bonds to be offered by
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is in the market to issue its first catastrophe bonds with two offerings totalling $150 million of notes, that are designed to provide $75 million of multi-year parametric earthquake and extreme precipitation disaster risk transfer to each of the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, Artemis can report. We understand
The outstanding market for collateralized reinsurance sidecar structures grew by more than $5 billion in capacity terms over the course of full-year 2025, with casualty and non-catastrophe vehicles a key driver of sidecar market expansion, Aon Securities has said. Growing third-party and insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital levels and increased investor appetite are
Alternative or third-party reinsurance capital, so that deployed through insurance-linked securities and related collateralized structures, grew by 18% over the course of 2025 and 10% just in the fourth-quarter to reach a record $136 billion at the end of the year, according to the latest estimate from broker Aon. In
Plenum Investments, the Zurich based specialist catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager, has published a position paper clearly communicating its thoughts on the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recommendation regarding cat bond eligibility under the UCITS investment framework. Recall that, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) made
The devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires that struck the Los Angeles area in January 2025 served as a real-world stress test for outstanding wildfire catastrophe bond structures, while also increasing investor confidence in allocating to the wildfire peril, according to Swiss Re Capital Markets. In its recently published ILS market
The Lagos State government has contracted a parametric flood-risk insurance policy in the Nigerian insurance market, which is designed to protect up to 4 million vulnerable people, providing up to USD 7.5 million for flood response and recovery. The policy’s activation marks a major milestone for the Tripartite Agreement Programme,