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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.

The year 2012 saw the highest level of indemnity trigger based catastrophe bond issuance on record, with more than 50% of all cat bond volume issued exposed to the indemnity losses of the sponsoring insurer or reinsurer, according to data from Swiss Re’s latest insurance-linked securities market report. The report suggests that this shows that […]

Some of the latest pricing indications for secondary catastrophe bonds show that investors have real concerns that the final industry loss total from hurricane Sandy could be sufficiently high to trigger the Successor X Ltd. (Series 2011-3) Class V-F4 notes. The Successor notes are the last cat bond which is considered seriously at risk of […]

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 […]

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 Monday morning again and here’s our post-Olympic catch-up of the most read articles during the last seven days. Many of you have been on vacation in recent weeks so we have left you a simple way to go back and find any important news you may have missed. Visit this page where you can […]

The success of Property Claims Services (PCS) industry-loss index and its usage in the catastrophe bond sector is highlighted in a report published today by PCS which discusses the cat bond market in the first-half of 2012. The PCS index has become one of the dominant trigger types used in the catastrophe bond market with […]

The catastrophe bond market has seen a busy year so far in 2012 with the total volume of new cat bond issuances now sitting at $3.588 billion according to the data in our Deal Directory. As fast as the market grows from new issuances though it is of course shedding capacity at the other end […]

The first quarter of 2012 saw record catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security issuance with the total volume of cat bonds and ILS issued hitting $1.493 billion at the end of March. This beat last year’s record Q1 issuance of $1.015 billion by $478m as both regular sponsors and some new issuers pushed the volume of […]