Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities news

Cedents are increasingly looking to diversify away from the “rhetoric” of the traditional reinsurance market and this is one of the factors causing Paul Schultz to be very constructive on catastrophe bond market development right now.

After increasing the size of its reinsurance sidecar transaction in 2021, followed by the issuance of its first catastrophe bond earlier this year, Hong Kong domiciled reinsurer Peak Re aims to further leverage the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market to close the protection gap.

Catastrophe bonds have been “the most successful of the children of Andrew,” and because of their greater contract certainty and performance, Michael Millette, Founder and Managing Partner of Hudson Structured Capital Management, expects more of ILS capital to shift into the bonds segment of the market.

While some in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market are targeting higher risk and return opportunities, or an expansion into non-catastrophe lines of business, Michael Stahel of LGT ILS Partners believes now is the time to double-down on more remote layers of natural catastrophe risk, where the insurance and reinsurance industry benefits significantly from the capital […]

Japanese fire insurance premiums, which are the prevalent type of homeowner and commercial insurance policy in the country, are likely to rise as insurers grapple with rising climate risks and the fallout of natural catastrophe losses, according to Moody’s.

Speaking in Monte Carlo today, senior executives of Swiss Re discussed the cyber reinsurance market and said while they are cautious and currently don’t see it suiting the capital markets appetite right now, they are working on ways to develop cyber risk transfer options that could be transferred to ILS investors.

Leaders at Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of the global broker, have said they are expecting additional third party capital players to enter the space next year, who may have been watching the market develop from the sidelines in recent years.

After a banner year for its insurance-linked securities (ILS) business in 2021, large European reinsurer Hannover Re says that market volumes in 2022 appear to be holding steady as the firm forecasts market growth going forwards.

The first more public cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS), or cyber catastrophe bond deal cannot be far away, panellists concluded at an ILS roundtable hosted by global reinsurance firm Munich Re in Monte Carlo this morning.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has continued to expand its activities in insurance-linked securities (ILS) over the last year and Philipp Rüede, Head of Swiss Re’s Alternative Capital Partners (ACP) unit, explained to us that with now multiple access points available to investors, the company hopes to grow all its ILS strategies.