CCRIF parametric payouts reach $266.8m after $4.9m for 2023 Atlantic storms
The CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility) made three payouts on parametric insurance policies to member governments from storms in the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, taking the total it has paid out to almost US $266.8 million since its inception. Three payouts totalling US $4.9 million were made for storms […]
Hong Kong government pushes for more ILS and cat bond activity
At a recent event held in the city, speakers representing the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HK SAR) of the People’s Republic of China were keen to promote the development of its insurance-linked securities (ILS) market offering and to attract more catastrophe bond business. With its ILS regulatory regime and ILS grant […]
CEA reinsurance program grows, cat bonds now 25%. Targets $2.2bn Jan renewal
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) increased the size of its overall risk transfer and reinsurance program up to November 1st, hitting that date with $9.26 billion in-force, as part of which the CEA’s catastrophe bonds had increased their share. Of the $9.26 billion of reinsurance and risk transfer in-force at November 1st 2023, the CEA’s […]
ADB moots issuing cat bonds, as it proposes CAREC disaster insurance facility
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has drawn up a plan for implementation of a disaster risk insurance facility for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, for which insurance-linked securities (ILS) would be seen as an important source of reinsurance capacity and it has even mooted issuing them itself. The member countries to the […]
Growing protection gap in insurance threatens Australians’ financial security: Andrew Hall
In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) CEO Andrew Hall warned of a widening “protection gap” in the insurance market, posing a significant threat to Australians’ financial security. Hall highlighted the challenges posed by increasing natural disasters, urbanisation, and global megatrends that are reshaping risk landscapes. The protection […]
CEA grows risk transfer program to $8.86bn, cat bonds still 24%
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) increased its overall risk transfer and reinsurance protection through the middle of the year, lifting the program to almost $8.86 billion in size, with its catastrophe bonds making up a steady 24% of the total. Through the four months to end of August 2023, the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) added […]
CCRIF makes parametric rainfall insurance payouts after tropical storm Philippe
The CCRIF SPC (formerly known as the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility), has made two payouts for Caribbean countries parametric excess rainfall insurance policies, after tropical storm Philippe in early October. Tropical storm Philippe made landfall on Antigua and Barbuda on October 2nd and then came close to the British Virgin Islands on October 4th, […]
Conditions primed for increased use of alternative reinsurance capital: GC’s Rousseau
Reinsurance market conditions are primed for an increasing turn towards alternatives, in sourcing capital and risk transfer solutions, according to Laurent Rousseau of Guy Carpenter. Speaking at an event in Baden-Baden yesterday, Rousseau, the CEO of Europe, Middle East & Africa and Global Capital Solutions at the reinsurance broker, explained that demand for alternative capital […]
Parametric sovereign risk pools to explore joint reinsurance facility, capital markets access
In what could turn out to be a ground-breaking development, parametric disaster insurance risk pools African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC), Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC), the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), and the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF), have signed an MOU and will explore a joint reinsurance facility to […]
ILS Asia 2023: Education still critical in relatively untapped region
Yesterday’s Artemis ILS Asia 2023 conference marked our first in-person return to Singapore and the Asian region since 2019 and while there are marked differences in the conversation surrounding insurance-linked securities (ILS) and the use of reinsurance capital, it is clear the region remains relatively untapped, on both an investment and risk basis. It has been […]