The catastrophe bond market experienced its third consecutive year of double-digit returns in 2025, with perhaps the most widely used benchmark, the Swiss Re Global Cat Bond Performance Index, delivering a total return of 11.40% for the period.
That makes 2025 the sixth best year of returns in the history of this longstanding benchmark index of catastrophe bond market performance.
At 11.40%, the Swiss Re cat bond index performance for 2025 was impressive given there were a number of losses to catastrophe bonds during the year and negative performance for the month of January after the California wildfires.
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