Best of Artemis, week ending April 13th 2025

Listed here are the ten hottest information articles, week ending April thirteenth 2025, masking disaster bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and associated threat switch subjects. To make sure you by no means miss a factor subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for each article we publish.

Ten most learn articles on Artemis.bm, week ending April thirteenth 2025:

1. Tropical Storm Risk forecast calls for 2 landfalling US hurricanes in 2025 season
   Tropical Storm Threat (TSR) has launched its April forecast replace for the upcoming 2025 Atlantic hurricane season and lowered the variety of named storms it requires by one, but in addition offers its steering for landfalling storms, saying that it forecasts there could possibly be 2 hurricane landfalls in the USA this yr.
2. No cat bond “dash for cash” seen as investors navigate financial market turmoil
   As worry engulfs monetary markets internationally within the wake of US tariff bulletins and the ensuing inventory market declines, regardless of establishments just like the Financial institution of England expressing concern about an awakening of the idea commerce and a few reviews of hedge funds promoting property to pay margin calls, at the moment sources say the disaster bond market stays resilient and calm.
3. Fermat Capital Management not given advance notice of GAM partnership termination
   Fermat Capital Administration, the specialist disaster bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funding supervisor, has advised Artemis that the agency was not consulted on the termination of its funding administration partnership with GAM.
4. Swiss Re takes on co-management of GAM’s catastrophe bond and ILS fund range
   Swiss Re Insurance coverage-Linked Funding Advisors Company (SRILIAC), a registered funding adviser subsidiary of worldwide reinsurance firm Swiss Re, is taking over co-investment administration duties for the vary of disaster bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds provided by world asset supervisor GAM.
5. Fidelis Partnership hires Erik Manning as Head of Ceded Reinsurance
   The Fidelis Partnership (TFP) a privately owned, Bermuda-domiciled managing common underwriter, has appointed reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) veteran Erik Manning from BMS Re as Head of Ceded Reinsurance.
6. Tangency Capital grows AUM to $2.3bn, sees continued growth in demand
   Tangency Capital Ltd., an funding supervisor within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) area with a give attention to reinsurance quota share devices, has expanded its property beneath administration to $2.3 billion in 2025 and is seeing continued demand from its reinsurer counterparts, in keeping with COO Dominik Hagedorn.
7. Peak Re adds China / India parametric quake to second Black Kite Re catastrophe bond
   Hong Kong headquartered world reinsurance firm Peak Re is again within the disaster bond market, with a goal to safe $50 million or extra in retrocession from this Black Kite Re Restricted (Collection 2025-1)issuance throughout a broader vary of perils than its first cat bond lined.
8. UCITS catastrophe bond funds grew 11% to record-high $15.3bn AUM in Q1 2025
   Disaster bond funds within the UCITS format accelerated their development within the first-quarter of 2025, with cat bond property beneath administration throughout the now seventeen UCITS cat bond fund methods rising 11% to succeed in a brand new record-high of just below $15.3 billion.
9. Florida Citizens sets $975m initial target for Everglades Re II 2025-1 cat bond
   Residents Property Insurance coverage Company is again with a big preliminary goal to safe a minimum of $975 million in named storm reinsurance safety from a brand new Everglades Re II Ltd. (Collection 2025-1) disaster bond, as Florida’s property insurer of final resort appears to be like to develop the capital markets participation in its reinsurance tower this yr.
10. “Nothing is off the agenda” with GAM & Swiss Re cat bond and ILS partnership
    Having introduced a brand new partnership that sees reinsurer Swiss Re turning into co-manager of the GAM Investments operated and distributed disaster bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, executives advised us that “nothing is off the agenda” they usually see a possibility to develop the vary of ILS merchandise provided.

This isn’t each article printed on Artemis over the last week, simply the most well-liked amongst our readers over the past seven days. There were 36 new articles published in the last week.

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