Catastrophe bonds marked down on hurricane Ida threat
A number of catastrophe bonds have been marked down in end of month secondary market pricing sheets, with some of the anticipated names suffering declines of between 25% and 35% in value. After hurricane Ida’s devastating landfall with 150 mph winds in Louisiana on Sunday it was always anticipated that there would be a mark-to-market […]
Retailers need a wholesaler that understands capital markets (ILS): Amwins Sloop
Retail insurance market players need to work with wholesalers that understand insurance-linked securities (ILS), Amwins COO Ben Sloop has explained, suggesting that the access this can give them to efficient sources of reinsurance capital is vital. Amwins recently formally launched a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) partnership with Bermuda based ILS fund manager Integral Integral ILS […]
Cat bond & ILW activity help drive PERILS-based transaction limit higher
An increase in use of PERILS industry loss triggers in industry-loss warranty (ILW) transactions focused on European windstorm risk, plus the buoyant catastrophe bond market, have helped to drive PERILS-based limits at risk up 11% to US $3.2 billion, as of the end of August. PERILS AG, the Zurich-headquartered provide of catastrophe industry loss data […]
Indonesia launches US $500m risk pooling facility. Risk transfer a goal
The government of Indonesia has launched a new disaster risk pooling facility that will initially have more than US $500 million of capacity available to help pay for the economic costs of natural catastrophes and severe weather events, but with a future goal of transferring some or all of the risk to private insurance or […]
APAC reinsurers to continue targeting Insurance-Linked Securities: Fitch
Analysts at Fitch Ratings expect that reinsurers in the Asia Pacific market will continue to adopt alternative capital as a funding source through the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market. The rating agency forecasts additional issuance of catastrophe bonds in the coming months after the seven that were issued using Singapore-domiciled vehicles up to July 2021. Potential […]
Asia’s cat bond & insurance-linked securities market to expand: Fitch
We should expect accelerating catastrophe bond issuance from Asia’s ILS domiciles, more cat bond and insurance-linked securities sponsors to emerge from the region and a gradual increase in use of alternative reinsurance capital in Asia Pacific, according to Fitch Ratings. The rating agency explained in a recent report that it anticipates continued momentum in insurance-linked […]
Bloomberg: Cat-Bond Market Rises to Record With $8.5 Billion of Issuance
Catastrophe bonds broke a record during the first half of the year with about $8.5 billion of new securities issued, according to a report from Swiss Re AG. The insurance-linked securities market could end up with more than $10 billion in issuance for the full year, the reinsurer said in a report released Wednesday. The […]
Cat bond market can grow to $50bn, pandemic risk & ESG are drivers: Swiss Re
After a particularly busy first-half of 2021 for catastrophe bond issuance, global reinsurance firm Swiss Re’s Capital Markets unit believes that a $50 billion market is possible by 2025 and that two drivers of further insurance-linked securities (ILS) market growth could be pandemic risk and ESG. In its latest Insurance-Linked Securities Market Insights report, Swiss […]
BlackRock launches ESG fund with cat bonds a targeted asset
Investor demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) appropriate investment opportunities and asset classes is expected to become a key driver for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market going forwards and a new fund launch from giant asset manager BlackRock only serves to reinforce this belief. While there are still very few insurance-linked securities (ILS) or […]
Cat bond fund size matters, but bigger isn’t always better: Plenum’s Schmelzer
When it comes to constructing a catastrophe bond fund it is important to consider market limitations, in terms of size and the availability of diversification. Given the cat bond market is only so large, there is a point at which growth in fund assets can come at the expense of returns, according to Plenum Investments […]