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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 […]

The United States east coast is watching nervously as hurricane Earl approaches. Currently Earl is heading straight for the Carolinas coast, it is predicted to make a turn to the north-northeast prior to reaching the coast and then skirt the coastline as it heads towards Canada. That forecast track doesn’t leave much room for change. […]

The issuance market for catastrophe bonds continues to be quiet but, as we understand it, we hope to see some action before the end of the month as a number of deals are currently being firmed up prior to marketing. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news […]

As we move towards the end of the year and the ever important January reinsurance renewals, it’s no surprise to see a new reinsurance-linked investment fund launch or for more cat bonds to come to market. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our […]

2012 has been a good year for the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market so far. We’ve seen issuance this year hit the second highest level on record, we currently have just over $5.6 billion worth of 2012 transactions listed in our Deal Directory which is second only to 2007. The market has also reached […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s been a varied week of news over the last seven days here on Artemis. With topics covered including the catastrophe bond market and insurance-linked securities, more longevity risk transfer news and discussion of new reinsurance sidecars and the retro market. As ever on a Monday morning, here are the ten articles which received the […]

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 […]