Archive for May, 2009

Here’s an interesting video interview with Eric Seuret of a technology company called 3S Mobile. As you might guess they provide mobile software and mobile internet related services. They are providing the technology behind an interesting use of SMS (text messaging) to enable Kenyan small holder farmers to gain access to micro-finance weather insurance protection. […]

…Although it helps when you’re only 165 square miles in area. The Barbados Tourism Authority has become the latest travel related organisation to utilise Weatherbill’s coverage to offer a weather guarantee to holiday makers and visitors to their island. As with all of these deals the idea is to stimulate bookings by attracting people to […]

Swiss Re has returned to the catastrophe bond market and placed it’s first deal in almost ten months. They have tapped their Successor II shelf programme to transfer more of their catastrophe risks to the capital markets. Successor II Ltd., set up in 2006, is a Cayman Islands based SPV which allows Swiss Re to […]

Now that the catastrophe bond market is looking more healthy and issuance has returned to normal levels it’s a good time to take another look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Total Return Index to see how that indicator of market health is responding. The index tracks the total rate of return for all dollar-denominated […]