Two new catastrophe bond deals launched in the last seven days, a parametric Turkish earthquake cat bond in Bosphorus 1 Re Ltd. and a second cat bond from Louisiana Citizens which we announced on Friday in Pelican Re Ltd. 2013-1. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news […]
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The catastrophe bond market continues to look healthy, with more news of cat bond pricing coming in at attractive levels, the latest deals upsizing and more new transactions in the market this week. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email newsletter […]
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The current pricing trend for new catastrophe bonds continues to surprise, and beat or compete closely with reinsurance pricing, with the latest example being Florida Citizens new Everglades Re Series 2013 near-halving in price on Friday. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our […]
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The issuance market for catastrophe bonds continues to look more active as another new deal came to market in the shape of another transaction for Florida Citizens with Everglades Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1). As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email newsletter […]
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The primary issuance catastrophe bond market came to life last week with two new transactions launching in Tar Heel Re Ltd. and Merna Re IV Ltd. both of which encouragingly come from repeat sponsors. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email […]
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The market is on its way to New York this week for the annual SIFMA ILS conference, at which Artemis will be in attendance. With the latest cat bond, Caelus Re 2013 Ltd., having upsized and dropped in price it looks like there will be much to discuss. As always, you can read every market news […]
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As we suggested might happen last week, the primary catastrophe bond market has come back to life as regular sponsor Nationwide Mutual seeks to issue its third cat bond, Caelus Re 2013 Ltd. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly email newsletter […]
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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 […]
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The last seven days saw some interesting news, with an ILS fund manager backing a syndicate at Lloyd’s, an intriguing reinsurance transaction from Berkshire Hathaway and comments showing re/insurers commitment to the third-party capital space. As always, you can read every market news story and article on the Artemis news blog, subscribe to our weekly […]
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A cross party group of members of the U.S. Congress have introduced a piece of legislation aimed at achieving the renewal of the U.S. government’s terrorism insurance backstop until the end of 2019. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act is slated to expire at the end of 2014 and there is now a sense of urgency […]
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