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As our readers will be aware there have been some movements in catastrophe bond bid and offer prices both as hurricane Sandy approached the U.S. coastline on Friday and so far this week. Trading was relatively light to begin with, according to various sources, as bid and offers were rarely close enough to find a […]

Yesterday we wrote that U.S. insurer Travelers had successfully completed their latest catastrophe bond Long Point Re III Ltd. but today we’ve seen that Travelers 2009 issue cat bond Longpoint Re II Ltd. is a cause for some concern for the firm. Cat bonds usually contain clauses that state the triggering parameters such as attachment […]

U.S. insurer Travelers have successfully completed their latest catastrophe bond Long Point Re III Ltd. today. It’s Travelers third trip to the cat bond market with two previous deals, Longpoint Re Ltd. and Longpoint Re II Ltd., having been transacted previously. The successful issuance of this $250m cat bond takes 2012 volumes to $3.588 billion […]

The latest catastrophe bond of 2012 was launched last week when we revealed that U.S. insurance group Travelers would be returning to the cat bond market with their third transaction, Long Point Re III Ltd. This deal see’s Travelers re-use the naming convention (with the addition of a space) of their two previous cat bonds, […]

U.S. insurance group Travelers is bringing their third catastrophe bond to market through a newly established program called Long Point Re III Ltd. according to sources in the ILS market. Travelers are continuing the Longpoint Re naming tradition of their two earlier transactions, Longpoint Re Ltd. and Longpoint Re II Ltd. The latest cat bond […]

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has begun to resolve the issues surrounding ratings of 16 catastrophe bond tranches which use the Risk Management Solutions (RMS) U.S. hurricane model. RMS released a new risk model earlier this year which S&P felt had sufficiently changed the risk profile of the transactions to warrant placing them on CreditWatch negative […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has placed the ratings of 16 tranches of catastrophe bond deals on CreditWatch negative due to recent changes in the risk model which was used to assess these cat bonds risks at the time of their issue. All the affected transactions utilise the Risk Management Solutions (RMS) RiskLink U.S. hurricane […]

Having written in the last week about the volume of catastrophe bonds which are listed on the stock exchanges  in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands I thought it would be a good idea to list them out by domicile for your information. We are going to include this information into a new catastrophe bond Deal […]

The Longpoint Re II Ltd. catastrophe bond from Travelers has now completed. The $500m deal (which upsized from an initial $250m) has taken the total issuance in the cat bond market during 2009 over the $3b mark. There are deals in the pipeline but at this stage we’re not sure whether they will be able […]