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Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) has affirmed the rating for 18 tranches of natural peril catastrophe bonds, from seven issuers, after each tranche of notes went through their annual resets with no issues arising.

U.S. specialty insurance group Assurant has been an end-user of capital markets third-party backed reinsurance capacity for some time, through its catastrophe bonds and use of collateralized coverage. In 2014 Assurant may look to the capital markets again.

The total volume of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issued during 2013 and listed in the Artemis Deal Directory hit $7.6417 billion by the end of the year as a flurry of deals in December closed the year at an all time high of $20.5 billion.

Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said on Friday that it had affirmed its ratings for 29 natural peril catastrophe bond tranches, issued by 13 different special purpose vehicle issuers, after the cat bonds had their annual resets of probability of attachment.

Catastrophe bonds and collateralized reinsurance are both growing components of the reinsurance program of U.S. specialty insurance group Assurant, helping the insurer both diversify and expand its reinsurance coverage by 20% this year. The recent completion of the insurers $185m Ibis Re II Ltd. (Series 2013-1) cat bond has helped in this expansion.

2013 catastrophe bond market issuance looks set to reach new highs as the second-quarter brings issuance to record levels for the first six months of the year and leaves the market well on its way to achieving $7 billion plus of issuance by the end of the year. Q2 saw $3.35 billion of issuance and […]

Research firm Clear Path Analysis kindly asked Artemis’ editor Steve Evans to moderate a round-table discussion for its most recent report, Insurance-Linked Securities for Institutional Investors 2013. The report which we covered in more detail here looks at the insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds and collateralized reinsurance sectors and discusses how the market has evolved.

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security primary market had an active year in 2012, with total issuance over the course of the year helping 2012 become the second highest volume of issuance recorded in a single year. Cat bonds and ILS in 2012 saw both repeat issuers and sponsors return to the market, as well […]

As is to be expected after a natural catastrophe event with the size and reach of hurricane and post-tropical storm Sandy, the estimates of insurance industry losses keep rising. This is typical of a complex, never seen in recent times, catastrophe event. For a great example of how loss estimates can creep under these circumstances […]

Hurricane Sandy continues to bear down on the U.S. eastern seaboard with forecasters still predicting a convergence of three weather systems that could turn Sandy into a ‘perfect storm’ (or Frankenstorm if you prefer). Sandy is forecast to converge with a low pressure system moving in from the west and cold Arctic air coming from […]