Cat Bond Investors Demand Higher Premiums as Weather Becomes More Extreme
Investors in the $35 billion catastrophe bond market are demanding the highest premiums in years to cover issuers against disasters, as weather events become more extreme ...
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World Bank Seeks to Restart Cat Bond Issuance to Boost Emerging Nations’ Resilience
The World Bank is looking to restart the issuance of catastrophe bonds to help developing countries improve their preparedness for losses from natural disasters.
Investors Return Goals at Odds for Reinsurers, Cat Bonds
Investors in insurance-linked securities are leaning toward structured catastrophe bonds rather than broader ILS instruments to steer away from unexpected losses from secondary perils, experts ...
H1 ILS Issuance Reached a Robust and Resilient $7.3B: Swiss Re
Insurance-linked securities continued at a healthy clip during the 2018 first half but failed to reach record levels hit last year, Swiss Re said in its latest report on the matter. H1 2018 ILS ...
H1 Cat Bond Issuance Drops in Sign of Possible Market Change
Catastrophe bond issuance in the first half of 2016 dropped substantially compared to the same period a year ago, according to a new report from the Property Claims Services unit of Verisk Insurance ...
Willis, Aon and Verisk Agree: Q1 Cat Bonds Hit Record Issuance
There's more evidence that catastrophe bond issuance hit record territory again during Q1. This time, Aon Securities and a division of Willis Towers Watson are making the call, after a Verisk arm did ...
Watch This Video: Guy Carpenter’s David Priebe Considers The Future of Alternative Capital
Insurance linked securities, cat bonds, or collateralized reinsurance are no longer a novel thing. They're embedded in many insurance company capital frameworks, and, as a result, a routine part of ...
AIG Expands Its Use of ILS Financing Into Mortgage Insurance
American International Group disclosed that it is expanding its already robust use of insurance linked securities into its mortgage insurance business. To do this, AIG's mortgage arm – United ...
Q2 Cat Bond Issuance Robust, But Below Record 2014 Levels: Aon Benfield
Catastrophe bond issuance came in at a healthy clip during the 2015 second quarter, but the half-year total dipped considerably from the same, record-breaking period in 2014, Aon Benfield found in ...
SCOR, Chubb, Help Drive Q1 Cat Bonds Issued to Record Levels: Aon Benfield
Catastrophe bond limit secured in the 2015 first quarter came in at $1.7 billion, the most of any Q1 yet recorded, Aon Benfield said in its latest status report on insurance-linked securities. Aon ...