catastrophe bonds News
COVID-19 Couldn’t Stop Robust Quarter for ILS Issuance: Aon
Usage of insurance linked securities the first six months of 2020 is already 20 percent higher than all of 2019, underscoring the sector's momentum and resilience even with the coronavirus pandemic, ...
Pandemic Bonds Get Stay of Execution but Their Future Remains Uncertain
A ruling last week not to wipe out holders of a World Bank financial instrument providing emergency funds to poor countries in a pandemic, was just a stay of execution if bond markets are to be ...
Disaster-Prone Philippines Taps Catastrophe Bonds
The Philippines, among the world's most disaster-prone nations, sold its maiden foreign-currency catastrophe-linked bonds to help cover costs of major calamities, in conjunction with the World Bank. ...
Pool Re Sells First Terror Catastrophe Bond
A U.K. reinsurer has sold the first terror catastrophe bond, giving investors the chance to lock in high yields in return for taking on terrorism risks. The 75 million-pound ($99 million) three-year ...
Philippines Explores Plan to Sponsor Catastrophe Bond Issue
The Philippines' finance ministry said on Sunday it was exploring a plan to sponsor a catastrophe bond issue, similar to the one launched by the World Bank early this year covering Latin American ...
As Hurricane Florence Approaches, Cat Bond Traders Are Trying to Understand Storm’s Risk
Catastrophe-bond investors are trying to assess the potential fallout from Hurricane Florence and whether they're in store for painful losses. If the storm's path of destruction -- which is aimed at ...
Opinion: Catastrophe Bonds Are a Smashing Success
Leave it to catastrophe bonds to be among the most well-functioning debt markets out there. Issuance of "cat bonds" has climbed to more than $11 billion this year, about the same as this time in ...
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 ...