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Mystic Re III Ltd., the latest catastrophe bond sponsored by U.S. insurer Liberty Mutual, closed successfully at an upsized $275m and the notes from the transaction have been listed on the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. The cat bond, which is Liberty Mutual’s fifth transaction, began life as a $150m deal with two tranches of $75m […]

U.S. insurer Liberty Mutual have launched their first catastrophe bond transaction since March 2009 (when they issued their last Mystic Re II deal), this will be their fifth catastrophe bond transaction. Liberty Mutual are seeking to secure a source of multi-year cat bond cover through a newly established Cayman Islands domiciled SPV, Mystic Re III […]

The new Mystic Re IV Ltd. (Series 2021-1) catastrophe bond transaction sponsored by insurance giant Liberty Mutual has been upsized during its marketing, growing by 50% to now feature an issuance of $300 million of notes to support reinsurance protection for the carrier.

Insurance giant Liberty Mutual has returned to the catastrophe bond market for the first time since 2012, as the company seeks a $200 million source of catastrophe reinsurance from the capital markets by sponsoring a Mystic Re IV Ltd. (Series 2021-1) transaction.

Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said on Friday that it had affirmed its ratings for 29 natural peril catastrophe bond tranches, issued by 13 different special purpose vehicle issuers, after the cat bonds had their annual resets of probability of attachment.

In its latest quarterly report on the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market reinsurance broker Aon Benfield takes a look at some of the cat bonds which were marked down due to hurricane Sandy. A selection of cat bonds faced greater mark-to-market losses than the rest due to the higher potential for loss. Despite mark-to-market […]

Hurricane Sandy continues to bear down on the U.S. eastern seaboard with forecasters still predicting a convergence of three weather systems that could turn Sandy into a ‘perfect storm’ (or Frankenstorm if you prefer). Sandy is forecast to converge with a low pressure system moving in from the west and cold Arctic air coming from […]

Hurricane Isaac has begun to come ashore in southeast Louisiana, read our latest article on the storms impacts and progress here. We’ve discussed the potential weather impacts extensively in that article but here we’re going to look at the potential reinsurance, insurance and also catastrophe bond impacts that could result from the first hurricane to […]

Aon Benfield Securities recently published Q2 insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market report included an interview with Elaine Caprio Brady, Vice President and Manager of Ceded Reinsurance at Liberty Mutual Insurance. The interview discusses Liberty Mutual’s use of the insurance-linked securities market as they issued their most recent catastrophe bond, Mystic Re III Ltd. (Series […]

As securities go, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities are relatively short duration, with an average lifespan of three years. This means that while new issuance flows into the market there is a constant stream of transactions maturing, coming off risk and freeing up investor capital allowing it to be deployed into the new transactions. A […]