Archive for December, 2012

The post-Sandy rebound in secondary catastrophe bond prices slowed in the last week. After a healthy bounce of over 1.3% when we looked last Monday, this week the Swiss Re cat bond indices have only seen very slight upward movement. This is perhaps a sign of continuing uncertainty over the eventual insurance industry loss that […]

Once again the market has been dominated by discussion of loss estimates for hurricane Sandy in the last week. We also had more news on an interesting fund launch, news of a novel life reinsurance transaction and insight into how to make cat bonds cheaper. As always, you can read every market news story and […]