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American International Group, Inc., AIG for short, announced their first estimate of the losses they will suffer from hurricane Sandy claims late on Friday. The insurer waited until after the stock markets had closed before making the announcement, perhaps a sensible move given the size of their first estimate. AIG’s preliminary estimate is for a […]

Another initial loss estimate from one of the larger U.S. primary insurers for damage caused by hurricane Sandy has emerged after the CEO of Hartford Financial Services Group suggested that its losses could reach $350m, which is the point at which their reinsurance coverage is triggered. The Hartford is a smaller insurer than others whose […]

U.S. primary insurer Travelers has become the second of the majors to release an estimate of their losses suffered from hurricane Sandy damage. Their estimate of $1.135 billion of gross losses before tax and reinsurance recoveries suggests that their two catastrophe bonds which had exposure to Sandy, Longpoint Re II Ltd. and Long Point Re III Ltd., […]

GC Securities, the investment banking and registered broker-dealer arm of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, have issued a press release regarding their involvement as lead structurer and joint bookrunner on the recently completed Long Point Re III Ltd. catastrophe bond which was issued on behalf of sponsoring U.S. insurer Travelers. GC Securities successfully assisted in the […]

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 […]

Hurricane Irene has now left the Bahamas islands behind after striking them with devastating winds and storm surges. The main capital of Nassau escaped the brunt of the storm but other, less inhabited islands such as Abaco, took a near direct hit and will be counting the cost this morning. Historic hurricanes have caused as […]

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 […]