Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending March 23rd 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.Wildfire losses drive near 20% performance gap between funds in ILS Advisers Index With all the insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds tracked by the ILS Advisers Fund Index now having reported their returns for January 2025, it’s become clear that there was a significant performance gap for the month due to the California wildfire losses.

Aon CEO Case takes President responsibilities, as Eric Andersen transitions to senior advisor Greg Case, CEO of insurance and reinsurance broking giant Aon, is taking on the additional responsibilities of company President, as long-standing senior Aon executive Eric Andersen is transitioning into a role as a senior advisor to Case.Elementum creates CIO roles, appoints Davis to cat bonds, Barker to private ILS Elementum Advisors, LLC has added new Chief Investment Officer (CIO) roles to its structure, with long-standing employees Jeff Davis and Paul Barker taking on investment oversight and responsibility for the catastrophe bond and collateralized reinsurance areas of the business, respectively.Florida State Board considers specialty, casualty, cyber ILS opportunities Having previously said it was researching how to expand its insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocations beyond natural catastrophe risk, at a recent meeting executives of the Florida State Board of Administration explained that specialty lines, as well as casualty and cyber risks could be in scope for the large ILS allocator.

Florida Governor DeSantis wants to understand reinsurance cycles Over the last few years, there has been a significant shift in sentiment among mainstream media and politicians, who cite the cost of reinsurance coverage as a key driver of the escalating cost of property insurance in the United States and nowhere has this been more apparent than in Florida.Moody’s Ratings seeks ILS discussion paper feedback, considers new rating methodology Moody’s Ratings has published a discussion paper on insurance-linked securities (ILS), with a focus on catastrophe bonds, and is seeking feedback from market participants to help clarify its understanding of ILS market dynamics and associated credit risks.AI-powered parametric platform Mythen launched by DeSilva in Bermuda Insurance technology veteran Sandra DeSilva has announced the launch of Mythen, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered parametric insurance platform and reinsurer, based in Bermuda and Texas, that specialises in writing natural catastrophe risks.

Lloyd’s reports 21% return-on-capital for 2024.Shows ability to deliver for investors: Neal In reporting its full-year results for 2024, the Lloyd’s insurance and reinsurance market delivered positive returns across both underwriting and investments, while despite a more than doubling of the major claims ratio during the year, still saw the underlying combined ratio come down.Florida attractive, as it trades above overall cat bond market spread: Tenax Capital Tenax Capital, the London based asset manager that operates a UCITS cat bond strategy, considers Florida exposed catastrophe bonds more attractive now, seeing improvements in the insurance environment there and an excess spread available for its allocations, compared to cat bonds for certain other regions.

London Bridge 2 pipeline remains healthy: Lloyd’s Deputy CFO Cliff Highlighting achievements from 2024 when $1.92 billion of capital was deployed through the Lloyd’s insurance-linked securities (ILS) structure, Deputy CFO Alexandra Cliff said today that the pipeline for the London Bridge platform remains healthy.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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