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Artemis Live - Insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bonds (cat bonds), reinsuranceAuthor: Artemis.bm
Artemis Live - Discussions with leaders in the catastrophe bond (cat bond), insurance-linked securities (ILS), reinsurance, insurance risk transfer and investments space, as well as updates on the cat bond and ILS industry, explainers and how-to's. Artemis.bm was formally launched in early 1999. Its founders held a belief that the capital markets was the deepest, most liquid and efficient source of risk and reinsurance capital available to facilitate the transfer of disaster and other exposures to investors, and that capital market structures such as cat bonds would be the most effective tools for the structuring and transfer of peak catastrophe risks. Today, Artemis is the longest running news, analysis and data media service devoted to the alternative risk transfer, catastrophe bond & insurance linked security (ILS), non-traditional reinsurance, insurance linked investments and associated risk transfer markets, with more than 60,000 readers every single month. With a wealth of news, cat bond data, analysis and market information, Artemis.bm is the best place to source information related to cat bonds, insurance linked securities and collateralised reinsurance capacity and investing. Language: en Genres: Business, Business News, News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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208: Catastrophe bonds - Maintaining an equilibrium in value, for sponsors & investors: ILS NYC 2026
Episode 208
Thursday, 9 April, 2026
This episode features another of our panel discussions at Artemis ILS NYC 2026, our tenth catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the ILS NYC series, held on February 6th 2026 in New York.This panel was focused on the catastrophe bond market segment and titled "Cat bonds: Maintaining an equilibrium in value, for both sponsors and investors."This cat bond focused panel discussion was kindly moderated by Philipp Kusche, Chairman HCMA Europe, Global Co-Head ILS, Howden Capital Markets & Advisory.He was joined on stage by: Stephan Ruoff, Co-Head of Private Debt & Credit Alternatives, Chairman ILS, Schroders Capital; Michael Bennett, Global Head Market Solutions & Structured Finance, World Bank; Niklaus Hilti, Chief Investment Officer, Euler ILS Partners; and Paul VanderMarck, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, SageSure.Our panellists explored the current state of the catastrophe bond market and the need to balance investor and sponsor demands, highlighting a record-fast spread tightening in recent months and still-increasing interest from an increasingly broad range of investors.Key points included the impact of investor interest on the cat bond asset class from both traditional allocators, as well as newer types of quantitative investors and wealth platforms. The discussion covered the importance of capacity and pricing, the need for continued evolution in parametric cat bond triggers, and the challenges of managing liquidity in the market.Panellists suggested that future growth predictions for the cat bond market ranged from 5-10% annually, sometimes higher, with a goal of reaching an asset class sized at around $100 billion in outstanding cat bonds by 2030.They also discussed the importance of managing capacity against demand and how this could become a challenge as the cat bond market grows, as well as the need to keep improving secondary market liquidity and functionality.Listen to the full audio of this panel discussion from our Artemis ILS NYC 2026 conference to learn more about conditions in the catastrophe bond marketplace, from the perspective of both investors and sponsors.
