The year hasn’t started well for residents of Australia’s Queensland state as rainfall has continued to increase river levels and the flooding they have been suffering from for weeks has now reached a point where it is going to cause huge losses and devastation. Flash flooding from thunderstorms continues to affect the area and the […]
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Swiss Re just managed to close their latest catastrophe bond issuance under their Successor X Ltd., Cayman Islands domiciled special purpose vehicle in 2010 which has helped to take total catastrophe bond issuance for 2010 to around $5.2 billion. In this deal $170m of Series 2011-1 notes were issued to protect Swiss Re from various […]
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We’ve had a great 2010 here at Artemis and we thought we’d share some figures with you that we are proud of. As some of you will know Steve Evans spent the first half of 2010 in Asia travelling, consulting and working on a number of risk related projects, so Artemis took a bit of […]
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The outlook for the catastrophe bond market in 2011 looks good. 2010 has finished on a particularly strong note, with issuance accelerating right up to the end of the year helping to bring 2010 cat bond issuance to around $5 billion. A number of factors should help the market maintain this momentum as we move […]
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