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A Mature Cat Bond Market? 2015 Issuance Dropped 25% Over 2014
The catastrophe bond market may be showing some steady signs of maturity. Bond issuance, measured by new limit, came in at $6 billion in the 2015 fiscal year. That's one of the five most active ...
Mexico Cat Bond Likely to Pay on Hurricane Patricia Losses: S&P
Bonds sold by Mexico to shield it from the cost of repairing hurricane damage are closer to paying out after the biggest storm ever measured in the Americas struck the country last month, Standard ...
Willis and UnipolSai Sponsor First Cat Bond For Italian Earthquake Risk
An Italian insurance company and a division of Willis Group Holdings plc completed what is billed as the insurance/reinsurance industry's first indemnity-trigger catastrophe bond for Italian ...
Swiss Re CFO: Regulators Should Keep Cat Bonds From Risky Repackaging
Swiss Re AG, Europe's second-biggest reinsurer, said regulators should prevent catastrophe bonds from being repackaged like subprime mortgages. "It's important for traditional players like us and ...
XL Group’s CEO Bashes Hedge Fund Insurance Investments
Hedge funds looking for new investments may be pushing too fast into insurance, said Michael McGavick, the chief executive officer of XL Group Plc. McGavick joins Franklin Montross, the CEO of ...
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 ...