Catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities news

Throughout 2016 the use of Property Claim Services (PCS) data for catastrophe bond issuance continued to rise, hitting $3 billion from eleven transactions, according to the PCS full-year 2016 Catastrophe Bond Report.

An extension notice has been filed for the stricken Gator Re Ltd. catastrophe bond transaction that suggests a partial repayment event and retention of $35 million, which is higher than the figure anticipated after the November loss report was released, providing a buffer for further development.

Beta and alternative risk focused mutual fund manager, Stone Ridge Asset Management, increased its insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked assets under management by just over 2% by October 31st 2016, to $5.054 billion.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS), pure catastrophe bond and reinsurance-linked investment funds have recorded minor impacts due to the New Zealand earthquake in November 2016, but in the same month recovered some ground on an improved hurricane Matthew loss outlook.

Our latest report on the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has now been published. The report, ‘Q4 2016 Catastrophe Bond & ILS Market Report – Market reaches new heights‘, analyses a fourth-quarter featuring $2.13 billion of issuance and a new record as risk capital outstanding reached $26.82 billion.

Assicurazioni Generali sees the successful acquisition of €255 million of fully collateralised reinsurance protection from the capital markets, through the recent Horse Capital I DAC motor third-party liability loss ratio ILS, as an example of capital markets support for its strategic optimisation of its capital allocation.

The Oppenheimer Master Event-Linked Bond Fund, LLC, a catastrophe bond focused investment strategy managed by Caleb Wong at OppenheimerFunds, has beaten its 2015 performance according to its latest annual report, returning 5.5% for the year to September 30th 2016.

Qualifying reported claims covered by the Gator Re Ltd. catastrophe bond transaction have now passed the attachment point, Artemis has learned, with the latest loss report for the cat bond revealing an impact of over $195 million at the end of November.

The utilisation of parametric structured insurance-linked securities (ILS) solutions to protect corporations against the impacts of natural disasters has the potential to grow, providing effective coverage where conventional insurance and reinsurance markets have perhaps failed to do so, according to Dr. Alan Punter.

Capital market investors were “well placed” to support the recent Horse Capital I DAC motor third-party liability loss ratio ILS, catastrophe bond like transaction, and its successful completion could open the ILS market to new opportunities, according to Bill Dubinsky of WCMA.