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Markel Insurance, the insurance operation within Markel Group Inc., has appointed Doan Nguyen as Managing Director of Specialty of London Market operation, effective immediately. Nguyen succeeds Tom Hillier, who was appointed Chief Underwriting Officer for Markel International earlier this year. She
Read source →Starwind Specialty, a North American programme management company and one of the region’s largest programme management operations, has introduced Starwind Private Client, a dedicated underwriting platform focused on the insurance needs of high-net-worth individuals and families undertaking complex r
Read source →International law firm DAC Beachcroft has bolstered its Cyber and Data Risk practice with the appointment of three specialist cyber partners: Richard Breavington, Rachel Ford, and Daniel Guilfoyle. The trio joins from RPC where they were partners in its Cyber & Technology Insurance team, led by Brea
Read source →REVO Insurance S.p.A., an Italian speciality non-life insurer, has announced the submission of a binding offer to acquire Luxembourg-based Eurocaution S.A. in a transaction valued at up to €22 million. Eurocaution specialises in insurance intermediation and surety underwriting, operating across Luxe
Read source →Accredited Insurance (Europe) Limited (Accredited) and Hellenic Hull Management (HM Insurance Agencies) Ltd (Hellenic Hull) have entered into a delegated authority partnership covering Hull & Machinery, ancillary marine risks and Marine Cargo. Hellenic Hull is a marine insurance management company s
Read source →Kingstone has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, reporting net income of $15.5 million, the “most profitable quarter in the company’s history,” according to President & CEO, Meryl Golden. Net premiums earned rose 30.8% as premiums from Kingstone’s reduced quota share con
Read source →Dedicated reinsurance capital is expected to increase further in 2026, as reinsurers continue to benefit from underwriting profits, investment returns and growing participation from third-party capital, according to AM Best, the global insurance credit rating agency, and reinsurance broker Guy Carpe
Read source →Reinsurance and capital solutions broker Augment Risk has announced the appointment of Kurt Cripps as group head of growth and broking, a newly created role, effective immediately. In his new position, Cripps has been tasked with driving the firm’s commercial strategy by identifying and executing ke
Read source →Radian Group Inc., a global multi-line specialty insurer, has reported a total revenue hike of 93% to USD 575 million for the second quarter of 2026, as net premiums earned rose by USD 100 million to USD 504 million, of which 53%, or USD 267 million came from the Specialty segment following the firm
Read source →Kestrel Group, a specialty insurance and reinsurance platform, has announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, reporting $6.7 million in total revenues despite seeing a net loss of $8.1 million. Q2 2026 revenues were up compared to the $5.5 million reported in Q2 2025. The quarte
Read source →Canopius Group, a global specialty and P&C re/insurer, has announced the appointment of Greg Kuchinski as US Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), effective 9 September 2026. Based in New York, Kuchinski will report to Sam Harrison, CUO at Canopius Group, and incoming Canopius US CEO Nadine Moore. He wi
Read source →Christoph Jurecka, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Munich Re, one of the world’s largest global reinsurance companies, has said he expects demand for property and casualty (P&C) reinsurance to continue growing over the medium to long term, supported by rising levels of uninsured risk, emerging expo
Read source →Third-party capital in reinsurance, deployed through alternative capital vehicles, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities, is projected to grow roughly 6% over the course of this year, to end 2026 around a record $130 billion level, according to the latest data from AM Best and Guy Carpen
Read source →The global reinsurance market is at an inflection point after consecutive strong year’s of underwriting returns have driven robust capital generation, while inflows continue to grow the insurance-linked securities market and alternative forms of capacity, which leads AM Best to call this an inflecti
Read source →Catastrophe bond fund strategies in the UCITS format saw performance accelerate through recent weeks as seasonality boosted returns, but the 12-month rolling return average across the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices has now declined to just under 10% for the first time this year. The average retu
Read source →Hiscox Capital Partners, the division of Hiscox Re that encompasses insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments and quota-share partnerships, has appointed Charalambos (Harry) Spanos as a Senior ILS Actuary. Earlier this year, Hiscox Re, the reinsurance division of Hiscox Group launched Hiscox Cap
Read source →As reinsurance sidecars increasingly expand into longer-tailed lines of business, the risk profile of these structures is shifting from traditional underwriting toward asset-side management. According to executives at financial and risk advisory firm Kroll, navigating this momentum requires strict a
Read source →While White Mountains elected not to invest capital into the Outrigger Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar, which supports its P&C insurance and reinsurance subsidiary Ark, for the 2026 underwriting year, the vehicle continues to serve as a major driver of cash flow, returning substantial capital
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Read source →AXA XL Reinsurance, part of AXA XL, the property, casualty and specialty risk division of global insurance group AXA, has appointed Stephen Barnard and Callum Higgins as Senior Underwriters in its Marine & Energy Reinsurance team. Barnard officially joined AXA XL Re on 10 August 2026, bringing 12 ye
Read source →Acies MGU (Acies), a technology and data-driven managing general underwriter (MGU) specialising in the creation and management of niche insurance businesses, has announced its expansion into the marine insurance sector through the launch of TEDmar International (TEDmar), a managing general agent ded
Read source →FurtherAI, an insurance AI platform, has announced the appointment of Zachary Hirsch as Senior Vice President of Sales. The company’s AI agents automate complex workflows across submissions, underwriting, policy administration, audits, and claims, enabling insurance professionals to spend more time
Read source →Global reinsurer Swiss Re has announced the appointments of Damien Bartlett as Head of Market Unit Life & Health UK and Ireland and Middle East and Africa, and Karen Tan as Chief Underwriting Officer for L&H Re. Effective 1 November 2026, Bartlett will succeed Tamas Bown, who has taken on the role o
Read source →Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending August 9th 2026, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publ
Read source →Berkshire Hathaway, the American multinational conglomerate holding company, reported that its recently entered into whole account quota share reinsurance agreement with Tokio Marine boosted premium volumes in the second-quarter, which otherwise would have fallen primarily due to lower property unde
Read source →Cytora, a UK insurance technology company that develops digital risk processing software for insurers, brokers and managing general agents (MGAs), has entered into a strategic partnership with Octave Specialty Group, a specialty insurance platform that invests in, acquires and grows MGAs. As part of
Read source →HCI Group, Inc., a Tampa-based insurance holding company, has reported net income of $83 million in the second quarter of 2026, up 18.6% from $70 million in the same period a year earlier. In the quarter, the company posted pre-tax income of $111 million, up 18% from $94 million in Q2’25. Net income
Read source →Amwins Global Risks, the specialist wholesale insurance broking business of Amwins, has expanded its specialist natural catastrophe facility for renewable energy projects, increasing available capacity to USD $50 million per placement while extending both the range of covered perils and its global a
Read source →Octave Specialty Group, a US-listed global specialty insurance company operating across insurance distribution and specialty property and casualty insurance, reported improved second-quarter 2026 results, supported by stronger underwriting performance at its Everspan insurance business and continued
Read source →ALIRT Insurance Research, a US insurance research and analytics firm focused on the property and casualty sector, has released a new report highlighting widening differences in the performance of residual property insurance markets across California, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. The company says t
Read source →Munich Re, the reinsurance giant, said that it systematically opted not to renew certain business at the mid-year renewals particularly in property excess-of-loss, but the company forecasts favourable prices, as well as terms and conditions, can be “largely upheld” at the next significant renewal ro
Read source →Speaking this morning during an earnings call, Munich Re’s CFO Andrew Buchanan gave the clearest explanation for why the global reinsurance company has reduced its retrocessional protection considerably, saying the company puts the effort into underwriting so it can keep the risk and has the financi
Read source →The Colombian government has contracted five parametric agricultural insurance policies to provide smallholder farmers with coverage against drought and excess rainfall, utilising a solution developed by the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), UNDP, and Germany’s BMZ via the InsuResilience Solutions
Read source →Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) has now lowered its forecast for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season at an update today, citing “conditions in the sub-tropical Atlantic looking less favourable than as appeared to be a month ago.” Recall that, in its April forecast, Tropical Storm Risk (TSR) lowered its pre
Read source →A new report from analysts at J.P. Morgan has suggested that while the catastrophe bond market has witnessed exceptional growth in 2026, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative capital are looking more disciplined, exhibiting few of the undisciplined behaviours witnessed in the last soft m
Read source →Twelve Securis is combining its catastrophe bond and private ILS focused investment teams, to consolidate and optimise its approach to managing dedicated strategies and blended portfolios, while at the same time the firm also stated that long-standing senior employee Etienne Schwartz is departing th
Read source →Storm surge dynamics in the northern Adriatic Sea: comparing AI emulators with high-resolution numerical simulations Rodrigo Campos-Caba, Paula Camus, Andrea Mazzino, Michalis Vousdoukas, Massimo Tondello, Ivan Federico, Salvatore Causio, and Lorenzo Mentaschi Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 3683
Read source →Drivers of flash flood frequency and intensity in the United States: a quantitative analysis of hydrometeorological interactions Ying Hu, Huan Wu, Yiwen Mei, Zhijun Huang, Aihui Wang, Chaoqun Li, and Bing Sui Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 3667–3682, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-3667-2026, 2
Read source →Today we are delighted to reveal the agenda outline, session topics and timings for our fast-approaching catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference, Artemis London 2026. Join us on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth ILS market discussion and valuable networking. R
Read source →SPIN (v1.0): A spontaneous synthetic tropical cyclone model empowered by NeuralGCM for hazard assessment Yurong Gao and Dazhi Xi Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 7303–7323, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-7303-2026, 2026 Artificial intelligence offers a new way to assess tropical cyclone hazards. We developed
Read source →A Sample Grant Proposal ”Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Adaptation” fundsforNGOs
Read source →Heatwaves are becoming more likely and more intense due to climate change, impacting sources of power generation around the world… The post Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Read source →New classes of climate model emulators to improve paleoclimate reconstructions Auguste Gaudin and Myriam Khodri Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 7135–7167, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-7135-2026, 2026 Reconstructing past climate variability requires computationally efficient models able to capture the beha
Read source →Drought propagation and ecosystem resilience in a peri-urban catchment of Berlin-Brandenburg Polina Franke, Aryan Goswami, and Márk Somogyvári Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 3617–3635, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-3617-2026, 2026 Droughts are intensifying due to climate change, impacting wat
Read source →Precipitation nowcasting based on convolutional LSTM with spatio-temporal information transformation using multi-meteorological factors Dufu Liu, Feihu Huang, Peng Zheng, Xiaomeng Huang, Xi Wu, Xia Yuan, Jiafeng Zheng, Xiaojie Li, and Jing Hu Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 7089–7110, https://doi.org/10.519
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