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» Q2 2017 Cat Bond Market Report - First double-digit year ahead, $10 billion imminent
Q2 saw a record $7 billion of risk capital issued from 29 new transactions, becoming the biggest quarter of catastrophe bond issuance on record and helping to drive the market to a new high.

The record $7 billion of Q2 2017 issuance has now put $10 billion firmly in sight for the year, a figure that will be reached by the middle of July.

The outstanding market size at the end of Q2 2017 is the largest ever, at an impressive $29.3 billion, which is growth of over $2.1 billion from the end of Q1. Download the report here.

» 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2017 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season is now underway. Track the season as it develops on our dedicated page; with forecast information, storm by storm updates, tracking maps, satellite imagery and more.

» Reinsurance renewal coverage
Read our reporting, insight and analysis of the January 2017 reinsurance renewals, when a large proportion of global reinsurance program terms are renewed and repriced. Reinsurance rate declines have slowed at 1/1, but reports suggest that the pressure on the traditional market remains. Read our reinsurance renewal coverage here.

» Deja vu, or a new normal of more efficient reinsurance pricing?

» London Centre for Global Disaster Protection announced at G20 by PM May

» Still too early to call for bottom of the reinsurance cycle: Deutsche Bank

» Leadenhall backs InsurTech focused “insurance challenger” Gryphon

» Take-up rate of Nephila backed facility Alternus, “fantastic” – Doyle, Marsh

» Technology will channel new lines of risk to the capital markets

» 2017 cat bond issuance hits $10 billion, market’s first double-digit year

» ILS funds facing excess capacity after June renewal: TigerRisk

» U.S. severe convective storm losses exceed $14bn for first-half 2017: Aon

» New Paradigm parametric deals to list on TigerRisk X-gRm platform

» Healthy pipeline of ILS deals expected in 2017: LGT ILS Partners
The LGT ILS portfolio management team discuss their thoughts on the markets prospects in 2017.

» Michael Hamer, Albourne Partners on standardised reporting in ILS
Hamer discusses the need for standardised reporting and the benefits it would offer ILS investors.

» ILS manager quality growing in importance: Espen Nordhus, Securis
Nordhus discussed a tough renewal period, saying that ILS manager quality is more important than ever before.

» The “horizontalization” of ILS to intensify in 2017 & beyond: JLTCM
In 2017 the ILS market will be defined by horizontalization, or the expansion of the ILS product offering, JLTCM said.

» Reinsurance price deterioration could persist into 2018: Moody’s
Moody’s said that it expects reinsurance pricing to decline by up to 5% in 2017 and possibly decline in 2018.