Cat bond news

China is aiming to strengthen its insurance system, with a particular focus on the impacts of weather and natural disasters and its State Council, a key ruling body, has cited catastrophe bonds again, as one measure that can assist.

While the focus for many is on what is still potential tropical cyclone nine and soon to become storm Helene on the Atlantic side, off the Pacific coast of Mexico hurricane John rapidly intensified and made landfall as a Category 3 storm which has resulted in enquiries from catastrophe bond investors.

Interest in private ILS opportunities, so collateralised reinsurance and retrocession arrangements, has been rising and continues to, Marcel Grandi of Twelve Capital believes. He also thinks these instruments afford an investment manager more scope, in terms of investment options beyond catastrophe bonds and tailoring portfolios.

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Catastrophe risk software provider KatRisk has unveiled a Severe Convective Storm (SCS) Model designed to transform how the insurance industry manages volatile weather risks, such as hail, tornadoes, and straight-line wind.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) such as catastrophe bonds are seen as a versatile and adaptable diversifying strategy that can can provide investors strong, reliable return potential, particularly on a risk-adjusted basis, the Liquid Diversifiers team at WTW has said.

Large US primary insurer Allstate has reported estimated catastrophe losses of $306 million for the month of August, with $75 million, or approximately 25% related to a hail event in Calgary, Canada. Allstate has revealed that the Calgary hail estimate includes reinsurance reinstatement premiums and is net of anticipated reinsurance recoveries of $225 million. At […]

Alternative capital has become an important part of the reinsurance industry’s capital structure, according to Urs Baertschi, CEO of P&C Reinsurance at Swiss Re.

Analysis from broking group Aon and Parametrix, a specialist in parametric cloud downtime cyber risk transfer, shows that it is possible to gain diversification within cyber portfolios that have cloud outage risk concentrations, with geography one way to achieve that.

Beazley has now secured its latest cyber catastrophe bond and further upsized the transaction to provide even more in reinsurance, with the PoleStar Re Ltd. (Series 2024-3) issuance set to price at $210 million in size for the company, Artemis has learned.