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U.S. primary insurer Allstate is returning to the catastrophe bond market with a second Sanders Re issuance. Sanders Re Ltd. (Series 2014-1) is a $600m or larger U.S. named storm and earthquake cat bond structured across three, perhaps four tranches.

U.S. primary insurer Allstate’s latest catastrophe bond deal, Sanders Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1), has now completed and the first risk period has begun. With Sanders Re 2013 Allstate has secured itself a new $350m layer of capital market backed fully-collateralized reinsurance protection for covered U.S. hurricanes and earthquakes, including fire following, on an industry loss […]

The latest catastrophe bond from U.S. primary insurer Allstate has something very unique about it. The Sanders Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) issuance, through which Allstate hopes to secure at least $350m of reinsurance cover for U.S. hurricane and earthquake risks, features a trigger design that we’ve never seen before and we understand that this is […]

We understand from sources in the insurance-linked securities market that U.S. insurer Allstate’s latest catastrophe bond deal, Sanders Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1), has upsized during the marketing of the deal. At the same time the price guidance on both tranches of notes being issued has dropped. Sanders Re is Allstate’s third trip to the cat […]

As expected after the insurer withdrew around $1 billion of limit from the traditional reinsurance market as it restructured its catastrophe programme to take advantage of alternative reinsurance capacity and the capital markets, U.S. insurer Allstate has launched a new $250m catastrophe bond. The new cat bond from Allstate, Sanders Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1), is […]

Allstate are the latest U.S. insurer to announce massive losses due to the severe weather which hit the U.S. midwest and south during April and May. Being the largest home and auto insurer in the U.S. their losses were always going to be meaningful. The period of severe thunderstorms which spawned record breaking numbers of […]

Catastrophe’s caused by the recent spell of severe thunderstorm convective weather which resulted in record breaking formation of tornadoes across much of the U.S. midwest and south are likely to cost insurer Allstate as much as $1.4 billion in losses. That’s a lot for one company from an event which has only been estimated to […]