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No New Property-Cat Bonds in Q3: Verisk

There wasn't a single new property-catastrophe bond issued in the 2014 third quarter, the first time that's happened this time of year in at least a decade, Verisk Insurance Solutions asserts in its ...

Midyear Re Prices Down Up to 25 Percent

Reinsurance prices fell by as much as 25 percent in key markets midyear as pension funds poured in money and demand for cover from insurance companies remained subdued, brokers said on Tuesday. ...

Aon CATstream Expedites Cat Bond Coverage for Cedents

Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of Aon Benfield, announced Wednesday that it has launched a new client facility that offers cedents faster and more efficient access to ...

Buffett Warning Unheeded as Cat Bonds Surge

Bond buyers are betting more than ever on the mercy of Mother Nature as they seek to boost yields being suppressed by central banks. Demand for notes linked to insurance against hurricanes and other ...

Market Pressures Require Reinsurer Response

The reinsurance industry is facing considerable headwinds in the current competitive market environment, with conditions unlikely to improve in the near term. Reinsurers, for their part, have not ...

How Cat Bond Investors Think About Yield

Will catastrophe bonds still be interesting to investors when overall yields on investments go higher? John Seo, the co-founder and managing principal of Fermat Capital Management LLC, provided the ...

A Conversation with Fermat Capital’s John Seo: The Evolution of Cat Bonds

John Seo, a pioneer in the catastrophe bond space, uses advanced technical models to assess the risk that investors will take on through portfolios of insurance-linked securities. But even simple ...

Cat Bond Yields Attract Inexperienced Buyers, Warns Swiss Re CFO

Swiss Re Ltd.'s new chief financial officer, David Cole, said high yields for insurance-linked securities such as catastrophe bonds may lure inexperienced buyers not guarded for the risks they carry. ...

Some ILS Money Irrational; Trad’l Re Mkts Adding Terror to Cat Cover: CEO

The once responsible insurance-linked securities market is showing signs of being overheated and irrational, the chief executive of the holding company for a Bermuda-based reinsurer said on Friday. ...

Cat Bond Deals Fell Just Short of Record in 2013: Willis Capital Markets Advisory

Tallying up total catastrophe bond issue for 2013, Willis Capital Markets Advisory put the figure at $7.1 billion, just shy of the $7.2 billion record of 2007. Last year saw a record number of 29 ...