Archive for July, 2011

On a regular basis we see news articles discussing weather events which have caused losses to corporations which may have been better protected through weather risk management techniques rather than their standard business interruption insurance policies. The latest case to hit the news in recent days is the damaging hail storm which hit Denver airport […]

The risk of an above average U.S. hurricane season and the abundance of investor capital waiting to be put to work are two competing forces which are currently acting on secondary market prices of catastrophe bonds according to investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly managers report.

It’s been two weeks since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, to see how their performance reflected the mood and state of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market. Both of the indices have continued to trend roughly as they have done since late March, after the earthquake in Japan […]

The second named storm of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm season formed late yesterday off the coast of Florida close to Grand Bahama. Tropical Storm Bret was named after a depression was briefly classified as tropical depression 2.

This interview originally appeared in the recent Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) Market Update, published last week. Willis have kindly allowed us to republish the interview which we felt you, our readers, would find interesting.

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security investment community will be delighted that they have some new opportunities to put their funds to work in transactions offering diversification opportunities today. First, Munich Re began marketing their Queen Street III Capital European windstorm catastrophe bond today and now Swiss Re are returning to the market with two […]

As we reported two days ago, Munich Re are returning to the catastrophe bond market with their latest Queen Street transaction, to secure themselves additional European windstorm cover. The cat bond will be issued by their Queen Street III Capital Ltd. special purpose vehicle, which was recently incorporated in Dublin, Ireland. The transaction is now […]

The world of alternative investments encompasses many different asset classes and types of investment that are said to help diversify investment portfolios by offering opportunities which are less correlated with traditional types of assets. However some are beginning to say that institutional investors are in danger of over-allocating themselves to alternatives which are perhaps not […]

A typhoon in the west pacific basin could threaten southern Japan. Currently typhoon 08W, named Ma-On, is around 1000 miles south of Tokyo and due to turn northwards towards the southern tip of Japan.

The correlation of insurance-linked securities to other asset classes and the financial markets in general is always a topic of much discussion among investors and market participants alike. Ever since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the resulting fallout on a number of catastrophe bonds which used a Lehman subsidiary as swap counterparty, the market […]