Catastrophe bonds & ILS issued and outstanding by year

This chart shows catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) risk capital issued and outstanding by year from the Artemis Catastrophe Bond & Insurance-Linked Securities Deal Directory.

With this chart you can see the volume of risk capital issued each year, the growth of the market and the current catastrophe bond market size in terms of cat bond risk capital outstanding, as we incorporate new cat bonds as they are issued and remove maturing transactions as they roll off-risk.

The data includes: pure 144a catastrophe bond deals; other cat bond like deals featuring specialty, life, mortality risk, etc; private cat bond lites or private ILS deals.

To analyse issuance by year and by type of transaction, so pure catastrophe bonds, cat bond lites, specialty/life/health cat bond and ILS deals, and mortgage ILS, use our new chart here which allows you to view issuance by type of deal.