City National Rochdale ILW fund grows another 7% to $191m
The industry-loss warranty (ILW) focused mutual insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund strategy offered by investment adviser City National Rochdale (CNR) has continued to grow in the last quarter of record, adding a further 7% to reach over $191 million in assets. The City National Rochdale Select Strategies (CNRLX) fund is an interval style mutual fund that […]
Enormous potential for cat bonds in Greater Bay Area: Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam
Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Government of Hong Kong, sees “enormous potential” for catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) to provide important disaster risk capital to underpin risks in the Greater Bay Area. The Greater Bay Area, also known as the Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macau Greater Bay Area, is a megalopolis made […]
Philippines requests cat bond event calculation for typhoon Rai (Odette)
The Philippines Government Treasury department has now issued a notice to the calculation agent requesting that an assessment be made as to whether recent super typhoon Rai (locally known as Odette) might have triggered its World Bank issued IBRD CAR 123-124 catastrophe bond coverage. The World Bank issued catastrophe bond provides the Philippines with $150 million […]
GIIF: Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Group Spotlight Interview
Background: During the just-concluded COP26, Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Group showcased its lessons learnt in implementing continent-wide climate risk resilience initiatives for millions of Africans through dynamic partnerships. ARC Group also received new funding for scaling its reach and impact to safeguard livelihoods for the most vulnerable at the frontlines of climate change-mediated hazards. The […]
Super typhoon Rai puts Philippines World Bank cat bond on alert
Super typhoon Rai, or typhoon 28W which is known locally in the Philippines as Odette, is tracking towards the country’s central and southern islands and is expected to make landfall with sustained winds as high as 160 mph, putting holders of the World Bank issued IBRD CAR 123-124 catastrophe bond on alert. The World Bank International […]
COSEFIN countries seek joint World Bank catastrophe bond
The Council of Ministers of Finance of Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (COSEFIN) hopes to tap into the capital markets for disaster insurance protection through a joint catastrophe bond issuance, with the support of the World Bank. The COSEFIN countries already benefit from parametric disaster insurance protection through the CCRIF SPC, but having […]
WBG: Sovereign catastrophe risk pools – 15 years on and still more to come
Like many other good ideas, this one started on a paper napkin. Fifteen years ago, a World Bank team was in Jamaica to arrange emergency relief funding to cope with destruction of Hurricane Ivan. This disaster destroyed 6,000 houses and affected almost 400,000 people. In a restaurant in Kingston, we began brainstorming ideas for creating […]
Hannover Re seeks $100m peak peril aggregate 3264 Re retro cat bond
Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re has returned to the catastrophe bond market in search of a collateralized source of worldwide peak peril annual aggregate and industry loss based retrocessional reinsurance protection, with a $100 million or greater 3264 Re Ltd. (Series 2022-1) cat bond deal. While this is a Series 2022-1 catastrophe bond transaction, the first […]
Google’s new catastrophe bond to settle at $275.5m
Google and its holding company parent Alphabet, Inc. have now successfully secured $275.5 million of California earthquake risk protection from their new catastrophe bond, the Phoenician Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) issuance. It’s fallen a little short of the revised top-end target of $285 million, but with pricing at a much lower multiple than Google’s previous catastrophe […]
ILS “particularly suitable for reducing tail risks” for investors: BAI
Despite the fact insurance-linked securities (ILS) themselves have the tail-risk of major global natural catastrophe events firmly embedded in the asset class, as part of a broader alternatives allocation ILS are “particularly suitable for reducing tail risks” in investor portfolios, according to the BAI. The German association for alternative investments, the BAI or the Bundesverband […]
