Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending October 5th 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.Catastrophe bond market on track for first $20bn+ year after above-average Q3: Report Issuance of catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) was above-average at $1.036 billion in the third-quarter of 2025, lifting annual issuance to $18.6 billion at the end of the period.

Which puts this year well on-track to surpass the $20 billion mark for the first time ever, our brand new report shows.Augment Risk & Cohen unveil casualty ILS joint venture Augment Risk, the risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm, has teamed with Cohen & Company, an asset management specialist, to launch a casualty insurance-linked securities (ILS) facility.USAA targets $300m+ multi-peril occurrence Residential Re 2025-2 catastrophe bond USAA has returned to the catastrophe bond market for its 46th catastrophe bond sponsorship that we have analysed and tracked, seeking $300 million or more in multi-peril per-occurrence catastrophe reinsurance protection from a Residential Reinsurance 2025 Limited (Series 2025-2) deal.

Digitization and discipline key to sustaining cat bond market growth: Wrosch, Twelve Securis As the catastrophe bond market continues to expand, the next phase of growth won’t come from standardization alone.Digitization, streamlining data and deal flow, will be crucial for handling scale while preserving sponsor flexibility, according to Tanja Wrosch, Head of Cat Bond Portfolio Management at Twelve Securis.Hannover Re sets-up “future ready” ILS & retro structure, as Ludolphs steps back Hannover Re has announced a leadership transition within its Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) and Retrocession team, confirming that long-term ILS head Henning Ludolphs will transition into an advisory role effective today October 1st, with Patrick Horstmann succeeding him as head of the unit to ensure continuity and support future growth.

Cat bond market expected return rises, 2025 could be third double-digit year in a row: Lane Financial Pricing in the catastrophe bond secondary market already implies a lighter hurricane season impact and actual losses are running below expected levels, which leads Lane Financial to estimate expected returns for the cat bond market of around 10.5% in 2025.Cat bond market yield falls to 9.4% in September, risk spreads tighten to near 2021 levels The overall yield of the catastrophe bond market declined further in September 2025, as seasonal spread tightening continued to be the major factor affecting that metric, with insurance risk spreads, or the cat bond market discount margin, now back at levels seen around the same stage of the year in 2021.Stone Ridge mutual cat bond and ILS fund assets surpass $5.8bn, highest since mid-2019 Stone Ridge Asset Management, the New York based alternative risk premia focused investment manager, has continued to grow the insurance-linked securities (ILS) assets under management of its mutual reinsurance fund strategies to just over $5.8 billion, which is now the highest level they have sat at in more than six years.

Auckland Future Fund (AFF) approves catastrophe bonds as part of target allocation The Auckland Future Fund (AFF), a New Zealand based investment entity that was established in 2024 as part of Auckland Council’s long-term plan, can now add catastrophe bonds to its nascent portfolio as its governing board approved an investment policy that includes cat bonds as an allowable alternative asset class.Thai asset manager KKP launches two cat bond strategies as feeders to Twelve Cat Bond Fund Kiatnakin Phatra Asset Management (KKP Asset Management), a capital markets investment firm based in Thailand and part of the Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group, has launched two catastrophe bond strategies for the Thai domestic market, with both set to serve as feeders to the Twelve Cat Bond Fund, a Twelve Securis strategy.This is not every article published on Artemis during the last week, just the most popular among our readers over the last seven days.

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