Year: 2024

Toa Re Europe’s $25m Silver Crane cat bond triggered in full by Turkey quake

Toa Re Europe, the Switzerland-based European reinsurance arm of Japanese group Toa Reinsurance Company Ltd., has benefited from a full payout under its $25 million Silver Crane private catastrophe bond transaction, after the notes were triggered by industry losses from the Turkey earthquake event from early 2023, Artemis has learned. Toa Re Europe sponsored the private […]

ILS capacity recovering in sidecars, ILW’s, collateralized reinsurance: AM Best

Capacity is increasing across the range of private insurance-linked securities (ILS) products, as fund managers and reinsurers have benefited from new inflows to structures and investors look to access the strong reinsurance market returns that are available, rating agency AM Best has said. But a single year of stellar returns, such as was seen across […]

Third-party capital in reinsurance could grow 10% to $110bn in 2024: AM Best, GC

Third-party capital in reinsurance, including that from catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS), could grow by as much as 10% in 2024, with AM Best and broker Guy Carpenter projecting it will be at $105 billion to as high as $110 billion by year-end. Industry capitalisation remains high, but still rating agency AM Best believes […]

Germany’s nat cat insurance coverage delayed due to political disagreement: AM Best

According to an AM Best commentary, the debate over Germany’s compulsory natural catastrophe coverage is hindered by the absence of political agreement between federal states and the central government. AM Best’s report titled, “Political Consensus the Missing Ingredient for German Natural Catastrophe Solution,” highlights that, following the 2021 flooding in Southern Germany, there have been […]

ILS market set records in H1’24, remains an attractive relative value option: Swiss Re

After a record 2023, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market again set records in the first half of 2024, with strong catastrophe bond issuance on the back of robust demand from investors, as the secondary market experienced record high trading volumes, according to reinsurance giant Swiss Re. The latest ILS Market Insights report from Swiss Re […]

UCITS cat bond funds average 6.35% YTD, second-highest annual return since 2011

Catastrophe bond funds in the UCITS format had reached an average return year-to-date of 6.35% by August 2nd 2024, which is the second-highest annual return since the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices started tracking the market in 2011. The year-to-date return of this group of catastrophe bonds is only second to the full-year 2023 record, […]

ARC grows, diversifies, but keeping reinsurance expenses in check crucial: Ndlovu

African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.), the financial affiliate and parametric insurance underwriting entity of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, has commemorated its ten-year anniversary and said it has now paid out over $170 million in claims. “From covering 12.9 million people in 2014, we protected 26.4 million in 2023. We have also expanded […]

Australian investment giant Colonial First State said looking for cat bond deployment

Colonial First State, one of the largest Australian institutional investors, is looking to deploy some of its near US $100 billion of assets into the catastrophe bond market, according to a report from Bloomberg. Interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) has been on the rise again among Australian pensions and managers of superannuation funds in recent […]

ARC pays $11.6m as drought triggers Malawi’s parametric insurance

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group, a provider of parametric disaster insurance products and risk pooling for countries and other entities in Africa, has made just over $11.6 million in payouts to Malawi and a replica partner the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) after drought triggered its parametric insurance there. The Republic of […]