Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities news

Third-party investor capital under management in reinsurance joint-ventures and insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds managed by RenaissanceRe’s Capital Partners division has now eclipsed the $7 billion mark, to reach $7.17 billion at the end of the first-quarter, while the managers cat bond fund surpassed $2 billion for the first time.

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the property insurer of last resort for the state of Florida, has now finalised its new catastrophe bond, in the end securing $1.1 billion of reinsurance from the Everglades Re II Ltd. (Series 2024-1) deal, so the size fell slightly short of its upper-target, Artemis has learned.

Twelve Capital, the Zurich-headquartered catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, announced this morning that the firm’s management have bought a 30% equity stake in the business back from strategic partner Swiss cantonal bank, Graubündner Kantonalbank.

The fact giant reinsurance buyer Zenkyoren, the Japanese National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives, has elected to renew a catastrophe bond in Singapore, marking its second transaction located in the country, is a “strong affirmation” of the growing stature of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) hub.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the state’s insurer of last resort that is currently in the catastrophe bond market with a new issuance that could approach $1.25 billion in size, expects that the rate-on-line across its reinsurance and risk transfer purchases for the 2024 hurricane season could be slightly higher than the prior year.

Executives from global reinsurance firm Hannover Re said today that there is no sign of new capital in the reinsurance market aside from through the catastrophe bond sector and some unlocked trapped collateral, and also discussed the Baltimore Bridge collapse saying that retrocession recoveries are anticipated.

The catastrophe bond market recently suffered one of its most significant weekly declines outside of the US hurricane season, with industry-index trigger cat bonds leading the way and almost all pricing down, Florian Steiger, CEO of Icosa Investments has said.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, the insurer of last resort that is currently in the catastrophe bond market with a new issuance that could approach $1.25 billion in size, is set to increase its budget for reinsurance and risk transfer spend for 2024 to a maximum of $750 million.

With our ILS Asia 2024 conference in Singapore being held in less than two months, on July 11th, we are now delighted to announce that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank and financial regulatory authority, will join us again to start the day.

As spread widening in the catastrophe bond market accelerated in recent weeks, the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices recorded their first negative week since back in December 2022, ending a 73 week long-run of positive average returns across the tracked cat bond funds.