192: Catastrophe bond & ILS market news, week ending August 17th 2025

Listen to this podcast episode for a recap of top catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities and alternative reinsurance capital news, from the week-ending August 17th 2025.

Listen to a recap of Artemis' most read catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) news of the last week. We hope this summary provides an easy way to listen to a recap of some of last week's top stories.

This week we covered: industry CEO's comments on the soft market and the state of returns in natural catastrophe reinsurance; catastrophe bond fund performance year to date; growth in capital under management at RenaissanceRe and the latest projection for ILS capital in reinsurance from AM Best and Guy Carpenter; strong continued traction in Bermuda as more new ILS structures are registered in the first-half of the year; and more.