Hannover Re collateralised reinsurance & cat bond business expanded in 2023
Despite the slowdown in the collateralised reinsurance marketplace in recent years, global reinsurer Hannover Re continues to place more limit on behalf of investor and ILS fund partners, growing this segment of its business again in full-year 2023. Hannover Re is a key facilitator for the global insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, both through assisting cedents […]
ILS allocations can generate attractive returns despite changing climate: LGT
Even in a state of increased event activity driven by a changing climate, allocating to insurance-linked strategies (ILS) can generate attractive returns for investors, according to a whitepaper from LGT ILS Partners, the specialist dedicated ILS investment unit of the private bank and asset manager LGT Capital Partners. LGT ILS Partners’ paper observed that, in […]
Investor interest in ILS could be stronger than expected: Moody’s
Thanks to the very strong earnings generated by capital deployed into the reinsurance market last year and an expectation that strong earnings can persist through full-year 2024, analysts at Moody’s Investors Service believe investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) could prove to be stronger than had been expected. Moody’s said that pricing of property catastrophe […]
London market ILS platform still seen as lagging: LMG report
While the London insurance and reinsurance market has been growing it is being outpaced by other markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) is again highlighted as an area of opportunity where results have lagged ambitions and there remains work to do, the London Market Group’s latest report makes clear. While London and the United Kingdom spent […]
Aon reveals cyber attack/data breach as top risk for financial institutions
Aon, a global insurance and reinsurance broker, has revealed that cyber attack/data breach ranks first among the top business risks confronting the financial institutions industry. This insight is derived from Aon’s 2023 Global Risk Management Survey. The survey also identifies regulatory/legislative changes and economic slowdown/slow recovery as the next most critical risks facing financial institutions […]
144A catastrophe bond issuance will set new H1 record, already tracking to $11.4bn+
The market for 144A catastrophe bonds is on-track to set a stunning new issuance record for the first-half of the year, with more than $11.4 billion of new cat bonds already lined up to be issued during H1 2024, data from Artemis’ Deal Directory shows. As of today, there are almost $9.3 billion of Rule 144A […]
Mexico “setting the standard” with use of World Bank catastrophe bonds
With the successful issuance of the $175 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 (Pacific) named storm catastrophe bond, on the heels of the $420 million IBRD CAR Mexico 2024 that provides Atlantic named storm and earthquake protection, Mexico now has $110 million more in disaster risk financing to support its resilience, Héctor Santana Suárez of the Ministry of Finance […]
ILS to play a crucial capital role to support cyber market growth: Neuberger Berman
With the cyber insurance market size projected to increase in the near future, members of the Neuberger Berman ILS team have said that insurance-linked securities (ILS) will “likely play a crucial role” in providing additional capital to support said growth. Citing a survey from PwC, Neuberger Berman’s Callum O’Rourke, Vice President, Insurance-Linked Strategies and George […]
SCOR seeks $125m Atlas Capital 2024-1 multi-peril retro cat bond
France-headquartered global reinsurance company SCOR is back in the catastrophe bond market in search of more peak catastrophe peril retrocession, looking to secure $125 million or more in North America focused coverage from an Atlas Capital DAC (Series 2024-1) issuance. SCOR last sponsored a catastrophe bond one year ago, from which it secured $75 million in […]
Catastrophe bond market yield jumps 7% in April, to reach 12.8%
The total yield of the catastrophe bond market in US dollars has risen by roughly 7% during the month of April, to reach a level of 12.8%, with slightly higher collateral yields plus an 11.5% recovery in insurance risk spreads the key drivers. You can analyse this in our chart that displays the yield of the catastrophe bond […]