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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 ...
Everest Re Preps Close On Its 1st Catastrophe Bonds
In spite of a challenging market, Everest Re Group Ltd. demonstrated resiliency and a willingness to adapt, recording increased premiums in the first-quarter of 2014. The Bermuda holding company also ...
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 ...
Catastrophe Bond Issuance High, But Short of Record in 2013
The catastrophe bond market experienced near-record issuance in 2013, with $7.1 billion of global issuance falling just short of the all-time record set in 2007 of $7.6 billion, Fitch Ratings ...
Pension Funds Betting on Catastrophe Bonds; Demand Outpacing Supply
Funds specializing in insurance- linked risks such as catastrophe bonds are benefiting as the $30 trillion pension industry increases bets in a market that hasn't posted an annual loss. At Leadenhall ...
ILS Market Could Be $150B by 2018, Cat Bonds Likely $50B: BNY Mellon
The level of catastrophe bonds outstanding could more than double from the current level of $19 billion to $50 billion by the end of 2018, according to a report from BNY Mellon. The global provider ...