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2011 has been a very interesting year for the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market. We’ve seen cat bond defaults as a number of deals became a total loss, uncertainty as issuance stalled after the new RMS risk model was released, continuing financial market turbulence and other disasters which threatened exposed cat bonds. Despite all […]

2011 has been our busiest ever year here at Artemis.bm and we wanted to share some of the key trends from 2011, some of the top-line figures we are proud of and data which demonstrates the growth that we’ve experienced. Overall, 2011 has been our busiest year ever, with visits to the Artemis.bm website and […]

A significant forward pipeline of catastrophe bond deals is readying itself, according to broker Guy Carpenter in their end of third quarter 2011 report on the state of the insurance-linked securities and cat bond market. Looking ahead to the rest of this year and into 2012, Guy Carpenter’s report says that the cat bond market […]

Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) have published their latest report looking at the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market over the last quarter. The Q3 2011 report found that none of the cat bonds issued during the third quarter had any exposure to U.S. hurricane risk, so offering much needed diversification to the market, […]

It’s been another busy week of news in the markets we cover, with many new articles on a variety of risk transfer related topics. Here, to give readers a chance to catch up on any news they have missed, are the top ten most read stories of the last seven days. The topic which received […]

Despite the issuance of four new catastrophe bonds, which brought close to $700m in additional investment assets to the insurance-linked securities market, demand remains strong amongst investors seeking to access the sector according to investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly fund managers report.

After a slight hiccup last week, when due to the volume of news we neglected to post a ‘best of the previous week’ piece on Artemis, we’re back to trial this again in the hope that it allows readers who’ve missed an article a chance to catch up on the market news from the past […]

Ratings agency Moody’s has commented on the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) issuance of $150m of earthquake risk through their Embarcadero Re Ltd. special purpose reinsurer. The catastrophe bond deal which the CEA completed without the involvement of a traditional reinsurer for the first time could see the CEA rely less on reinsurers services in future.

In a landmark deal, the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) have completed the transfer of $150m of earthquake risks directly to capital markets investors for the first time. Previously the CEA had tapped the catastrophe bond market for cover through the Redwood Capital series of deals which were facilitated by Swiss Re, but for the first […]

Since our last look a fortnight ago at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, to see how their performance reflected the mood and state of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market, both indices are now showing positive upwards growth. The price return index has reversed a four week decline and has recovered some […]