World Bank targets sovereign risk transfer for Indonesia by 2024
The government of Indonesia continues to work towards better management of its natural disaster risks and, with the assistance of the World Bank, there is a target to have a sovereign risk transfer or disaster insurance structure in place by 2024. As we reported last August, Indonesia had launched a new disaster risk pooling facility, […]
Private catastrophe bonds surpass $1bn for first time in 2021
For the first time on-record, annual issuance of privately placed catastrophe bond transactions has surpassed $1 billion in 2021, as these more streamlined insurance-linked securities (ILS) arrangements continued to play an important role for some protection buyers, ILS funds and investors. Private catastrophe bond activity had declined in 2020, as the annual issuance volume of […]
Munich Re: Hurricanes, cold waves, tornadoes: Weather disasters in USA dominate natural disaster losses in 2021
In 2021, natural disasters caused overall losses of US$ 280bn, of which roughly US$ 120bn were insured Alongside 2005 and 2011, the year 2021 proved to be the second-costliest ever for the insurance sector (record year 2017: US$ 146bn, inflation-adjusted) – overall losses from natural disasters were the fourth-highest to date (record year 2011: US$ […]
2021 insured cat losses $120bn, December tornadoes $4bn: Munich Re
Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has estimated that insurance industry losses from natural disasters or catastrophes in 2021 were roughly US $120 billion, the second-highest annual total ever. This is a higher total than most sources had been discussing, as we’d been hearing that annual natural catastrophe and severe weather insured losses might reach $110 […]
