Catastrophe bond prices move again on LA wildfires, ~$200m write-down so far

On Friday some catastrophe bonds saw further negative secondary market price movements due to potential exposure to aggregate attachment erosion, or actual losses, from the Los Angeles and Southern California wildfires. Here we detail the latest information we have on names that experienced the most meaningful moves in the last week.

As we’ve been reporting, official reports now state that 17,027 structures have been damaged or destroyed by the wildfires and the first estimates of insurance industry losses from catastrophe risk modellers, announced last week, so far have a mid-point of $32.5 billion.

The range, from across the CoreLogic ($35bn to $45bn) and Moody’s RMS Event Response ($20bn to $30bn) estimates is for insured losses to fall in a range between $20 billion and $45 billion.

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