alternative risk transfer

Once again, hurricane Sandy dominated our coverage last week. The market is now waiting for updates on the estimates of insured industry losses from the storm, there may be more clarity later this week we understand. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our […]

Hurricane Sandy dominated our coverage last week and kept us extremely busy. The market now awaits the verdict on whether there are meaningful impacts to catastrophe bonds and reinsurers. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email newsletter update and for your […]

Last week was dominated by three new catastrophe bonds which all priced (details on them all can be found in our Deal Directory) and then hurricane Sandy took over to dominate the markets thoughts. We hope all our U.S. east coast readers stay safe as Sandy approaches! As always, you can read every market news […]

Meadowbrook Insurance Group, a U.S. specialty property and casualty insurance group, has tasked itself with looking at ‘reinsurance alternatives’ in an effort to resolve a review of its ratings instigated by A.M. Best. Best has placed the financial strength ratings and issuer credit ratings of Meadowbrook subsidiaries and Meadowbrook itself’s ICR under review with negative […]

After saying in last Monday’s update that the market was full of rumours that a new catastrophe bond deal would launch, by the end of last week we had three new transactions to report on. Find details on them all in our Deal Directory. As always, you can read every market news story and article […]

The ILS and catastrophe bond market are sitting out the remainder of the U.S. hurricane season, hoping for another diversifying deal to come to market. Appetite remains strong and there are market rumours that a deal could launch within the next fortnight. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the […]

It’s been another busy week for news in the markets we cover here on Artemis. Discussion of insurance and reinsurance as an investment opportunity increases and news of companies seeking to support investors and sponsors goals becomes more frequent. As always, you can read every news story and article on the Artemis news blog and […]

Readers of Artemis will know that we often discuss the increasing flow of capital from institutional investors into the non-traditional reinsurance space and the effect capital markets sourced capacity has on the traditional reinsurance market and on reinsurers. One of the effects of this influx of capital is pressure on rates, as availability of capacity […]

An interesting week in the markets we cover on Artemis, with a high-profile, and very welcome transaction offering diversification for cat bond investors in MultiCat and an interesting new company launch in Multi-Strat. As always, you can read every news story and article on the Artemis news blog and for your convenience these are the […]

A stormy future lies ahead for U.S. property and casualty re/insurers according to a new report from Ceres, a nonprofit group advocating for sustainability leadership from businesses and investors. The report suggests worsening weather in a warming world poses a growing risk to the financial stability of insurance and reinsurance companies, and this has broad […]