Archive for April, 2023

The relatively short time taken for catastrophe bond investments to recover after loss events and crises affecting global markets has been impressive throughout the sector’s history, with cat bonds exhibiting a tendency to recover from draw-downs much faster than other asset classes.

The PERILS Industry Exposure Database (IED) 2023 highlights the impact of inflationary developments on exposures, revealing sums insured for European windstorm increased by 11.7% year-on-year at constant EUR exchange rates.

Palomar Insurance Holdings is back in the catastrophe bond market for its fourth issuance, seeking $150 million or more in US earthquake reinsurance from the capital markets with this Torrey Pines Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) issuance.

Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the non-profit residential and commercial property insurer for those who cannot access private market insurance in the state, is back in the catastrophe bond market, seeking $150 million of named storm reinsurance through a Bayou Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) deal.

The fact trial lawyers have dumped tens of thousands of lawsuits into the Florida courts in March, just before the state’s tort reform legislative overhaul kicked in, adds another threat to the already challenged Florida insurance market, the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) has said.

Catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance investment manager Twelve Capital has grown its asset base through the first-quarter of 2023, reaching a new level of $4.2 billion of firm-wide assets under management.

A new paper from the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) highlights the potential for increased use of catastrophe bonds to support the overall supply of catastrophe insurance across the European Union (EU), as climate change threatens to widen the protection gap. According to the joint discussion paper, […]

For a few weeks now we’ve been hearing rumours and receiving messages from contacts related to the fact the European Securities & Markets Authority (ESMA), a financial regulator, had restarted an exploration of catastrophe bonds and whether they should be an eligible asset for UCITS investment funds.

The portfolios of reinsurance and retrocessional risk transferred to the capital markets, through catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities (ILS), in 2023 are potentially the cleanest ever seen, while record cat bond issuance is a possibility this year, K2 Advisors has said.

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