Cat bond market resilient through macroeconomic headwinds: Aon

Despite the significant macroeconomic headwinds that posed a threat to investor capital and impacted most financial markets through the second-quarter of 2022, the catastrophe bond market was resilient by comparison, with the period seeing its third-highest volume of new cat bond issuance.

This is according to Aon Securities, the capital markets, catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist investment banking unit of the insurance and reinsurance broker.

In commenting on the second-quarter of the year, Aon Securities noted that, “Rapidly increasing inflation, rising interest rates and costly currency hedges posed as significant threats to ILS investor capital at the beginning of the quarter.”

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