Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending September 14th 2025, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics.To ensure you never miss a thing or get our email alerts for every article we publish.Munich Re highlights independence from third-party capital, says cat bonds don’t help protection gap In Monte Carlo, Munich Re board member Stefan Golling told a media briefing that alternative reinsurance capital and the catastrophe bond market in particular, are not helping to narrow the insurance protection gap, while highlighting the reinsurers’ independence from third-party capital.

It’s a measured softening, not a full pricing reversal: Sapelza, Lumen Re CUO While the property catastrophe reinsurance market entered into a phase of measured softening in the first half of 2025, Klaus Sapelza, CUO of Lumen Re has highlighted how this is not a full pricing reversal, while also stating that maintaining strict selectivity in risks underwritten remains critical in the current environment.Enstar sees strong ILS fund interest in providing liquidity solutions for investors: Execs Executives from Enstar, one of the largest legacy and run-off reinsurance specialists in the world, told Artemis that they are seeing strong interest for its solutions from the insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds sector, as managers seek mechanisms to provide liquidity to their investors.Nephila to launch pure catastrophe reinsurance Syndicate 2359 at Lloyd’s Nephila Capital, one of the longest-standing and largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers, has been approved in principle to launch Lloyd’s Syndicate 2359, its third syndicate and its first in the market to have a pure property catastrophe risk and returns focus for specialised Lloyd’s investors and capital allocators.

ILS recruitment market seeing business development & analytics demand: Sykes, 20Twenty Search After a challenging few years that began with the hurricane-heavy season of 2017, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has entered a sustained period of strong returns.The rebound is also reshaping recruitment trends, with rising demand being seen for talent in business development and analytics, according to 20Twenty Search’s Jason Sykes.Property cat seen flat to down 15% in Monte Carlo.

Growth ambitions and capital are drivers: KBW After meeting with reinsurance industry executives in Monte Carlo at the Rendez-vous event this year, analysts at KBW have said the indicated range of expectations for property catastrophe reinsurance pricing at the January 2026 renewals is from flat to down 15%, with a desire to keep growing in the market seen as likely to drive a decline towards the higher end.Liquidity & standardisation essential to support cat bond and ILS market growth: Monnier, Swiss Re Secondary liquidity and standardized deal processes are essential factors that will help support the ongoing growth of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, according to Jean-Louis Monnier, Head of ILS at Swiss Re Capital Markets.Legacy market matures.

Alternative capital and ILS play increasing role: PwC report As PwC released its sixteenth Global Insurance Run-Off Survey report today, we took a look at what the legacy reinsurance sector is saying about the growing use of alternative capital in the space, as well as how legacy solutions are now serving insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and investors as well.Demand for retro capacity to rise, rates to soften, retentions to be pressured: Guy Carpenter Guy Carpenter is anticipating rising demand for capacity across reinsurance and retrocession markets at the January renewals, but against a backdrop of softening where they will be looking for markets to offer more to clients, through improved pricing and terms.Buyers & sellers energised by casualty ILS opportunity: Howden Re Buyers and sellers are energised by the opportunity to unlock long-tail casualty risk through insurance-linked securities (ILS), with this momentum driving a broader transformation in the legacy reinsurance market, shifting it from one-off liability transfers toward long-term, strategic partnerships, according to Howden Re.

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