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North Carolina is seeking to enact legislation which would make it a home to captive insurance and reinsurance companies and special purpose vehicles such as catastrophe bond issuers. In an effort to grow its share of the re/insurance market bill SB 476, sponsored by two Republican Senators, has moved through the North Carolina Senate Insurance […]

GC Securities, the capital markets arm of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter has published a press release on its involvement in the Tar Heel Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) catastrophe bond. GC Securities press release, which you can read in full below, contains some interesting quotes from its clients on the transaction, the two North Carolina wind pool […]

The worlds largest reinsurance firm Munich Re played a number of key roles in the issuance of the recently completed $500m Tar Heel Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) catastrophe bond. Munich Re acted as co-structuring agent and co-lead manager on the transaction which effectively secured a $500m source of fully-collateralized North Carolina hurricane protection for the North […]

Another catastrophe bond has settled and completed today, securing a source of hurricane reinsurance protection for the two North Carolina wind pools, the North Carolina Joint Underwriters Assn. (NCJUA) and the North Carolina Insurance Underwriters Assn. (NCIUA). The successful completion of the Tar Heel Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) cat bond brings another $500m of risk […]

The pricing on one of the catastrophe bonds currently in the market has dropped again, resulting in final pricing sitting right at the bottom of an already reduced range. The Tar Heel Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) cat bond, which is being marketed for the North Carolina Joint Underwriters Assn. (NCJUA) and the North Carolina Insurance […]

The trend for recent catastrophe bonds to see very attractive terms and pricing continues with North Carolina wind pools, the North Carolina Joint Underwriters Assn. (NCJUA) and the North Carolina Insurance Underwriters Assn. (NCIUA), Tar Heel Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) cat bond. As insurance linked securities (ILS) investors demonstrate once again their strong appetite for […]

The primary issuance catastrophe bond market sprung back to life this week as two new deals began marketing. We now have details on the first to share, a new transaction designed to support the North Carolina wind pools, the North Carolina Joint Underwriters Assn. (NCJUA) and the North Carolina Insurance Underwriters Assn. (NCIUA), with a […]

The recently closed Johnston Re Ltd. Series 2011-1 catastrophe bond transaction has helped bring the amount of capital market cover for hurricanes afforded to the two North Carolina non-profit insurance associations, the North Carolina Joint Underwriters Assn. (NCJUA) and the North Carolina Insurance Underwriters Assn. (NCIUA) to $507m.

North Carolina hurricane risk catastrophe bond Johnston Re Ltd. Series 2011-1 has closed successfully at a size of just under $202m, slightly upsized from the initial offering amount that the deal was marketed to investors at. This brings cat bond market issuance for 2011 to over $1.4 billion according to data from our catastrophe bond […]

Munich Reinsurance America Inc. are actively marketing the second catastrophe bond in the Johnston Re series of deals. As with their 2010 Johnston Re cat bond, the deal provides U.S. hurricane cover for Munich Re America for a reinsurance agreement they have with two North Carolina non-profit insurance associations, the North Carolina Joint Underwriters Assn. […]