The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) is a publicly managed, privately funded, not-for-profit insurer in the state of California that, since 1996, has offered residential property earthquake insurance policies to homeowners insurance customers of its participating insurers.
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) buys a significant reinsurance tower and utilises billions of dollars of earthquake catastrophe bonds within that tower, as diversified, capital markets backed protection.
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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) has released some details of their risk transfer and reinsurance plans for the remainder of 2012 and for 2013 after a board meeting held on the 23rd August. Documents published on the CEA’s website show that they continue to focus on achieving cost-effective risk transfer through the use of traditional […]
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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) have successfully completed their third catastrophe bond issuance in the last twelve months through the Embarcadero Re Ltd. transformer vehicle, bringing the total cat bond coverage the CEA benefits from to $600m. The latest issuance, Embarcadero Re Ltd. (Series 2012-2), completed successfully and was rated yesterday, securing the CEA $300m […]
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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) are in the process of bringing their third catastrophe bond deal to market through the Embarcadero Re Ltd. transformer vehicle. The latest deal in the cat bond market in Q3, Embarcadero Re Ltd. (Series 2012-2), will issue a single tranche of Class A notes to be sold to investors which are […]
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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) are to return to the catastrophe bond market for the third time in a year to sponsor another transaction through the Embarcadero Re Ltd. transformer vehicle. As we wrote back in May, the CEA governing board approved the issuance of further catastrophe bonds through a transformer reinsurance vehicle. At that […]
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The California Earthquake Authority governing board has approved the issuance of further catastrophe bonds through a transformer reinsurance vehicle (likely Embarcadero Re Ltd.) during 2012. At a recent governing board meeting approval was sought to issue up to $300m in additional catastrophe bonds this year if the market terms and pricing are conducive and the […]
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With the completion of their second earthquake catastrophe bond through the Embarcadero Re Ltd. Bermuda domiciled SPV, the California Earthquake Authority now receives 10% of its risk transfer cover from the capital markets via catastrophe bonds. The second Embarcadero Re deal, a $150m single tranche of Series 2012-1 cat bond notes, provides another layer of […]
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The second California Earthquake Authority catastrophe bond to be issued through the dedicated Bermuda domiciled Embarcadero Re Ltd. SPV has completed successfully and the notes issued have been listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. The CEA returned to the cat bond market seeking another fully collateralized, multi-year tranche of reinsurance cover from the capital markets […]
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More details have been published on the second California Earthquake Authority catastrophe bond to be issued through the dedicated Bermuda domiciled Embarcadero Re Ltd. SPV. The CEA is issuing another cat bond (as we revealed yesterday) to secure an increased level of cover for earthquakes impacting California on a three year, fully collateralized basis. The […]
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As expected, the California Earthquake Authority are returning to the catastrophe bond market to issue another cat bond using their dedicated Embarcadero Re Ltd. Bermuda based SPV. The first Embarcadero Re deal was issued in August last year and it secured them $150m of cover. Now, sources have confirmed to us that the second deal […]
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The California Earthquake Authority (CEA) have published some more details of their plans for a return to the catastrophe bond market, presumably through their Embarcadero Re Ltd. Bermuda based SPV. The CEA were particularly pleased with their $150m cat bond that they issued in August which they felt cost them less than traditional reinsurance and […]
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