catastrophe

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 […]

It’s generally assumed that insured losses from natural catastrophes tend to be driven by the regions of the world with the highest insurance uptake and property catastrophe insurance exposure. Hence the long-term trend shows the United States as the dominant source of insured natural catastrophe losses, with more than three-quarters of losses historically coming from […]

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 […]

Last week saw the market get back to work after the Monte Carlo meetings. As usual that means news was a little slower, although what news did break has been particularly interesting. As always, you can read everything on the Artemis news blog and here are the ten most popular news articles from the last […]

Last week saw the annual reinsurance industry event in Monte Carlo, the Rendez-vous de Septembre, take place. Hopefully those of you who attended will have been able to keep up with the market news but if you didn’t our regular monday catch up will help. The last week was extremely busy with many companies releasing […]

The August Global Catastrophe Recap, from Aon Benfield’s catastrophe modelling arm Impact Forecasting, shows that there is considerable disparity between insurance penetration levels around the globe. The low amount of insured losses in some catastrophe events around the world demonstrates where growth should be expected and where there is an opportunity for insurers and reinsurers […]

One of the big talking points over the last two years in the reinsurance market has been, so called, ‘cold spot’ catastrophe losses and growing re/insurance exposures in emerging markets of the world. At this weeks Monte Carlo Rendez-vous this topic has received a lot of attention as re/insurers struggle to understand their own exposures […]

Once again hurricanes have been dominating the thoughts of much of the reinsurance market, particularly as Bermuda was threatened by Leslie. Thankfully hurricane Leslie tracked further east and moved past Bermuda with minimal impact. The markets thoughts now turn to Monte Carlo for this week’s Rendez-vous meetings. To help you prepare for this industry meetup, […]

Fitch Ratings says that the reinsurance sector’s capitalisation and claims paying ability has improved over the last year, in their latest outlook on the global reinsurance industry. Overall, Fitch gives the reinsurance sector a stable ratings outlook over the next 12 to 24 months, and expects reinsurer ratings to be supported by the sectors capital, […]

Last week was dominated by hurricane Isaac which struck the Louisiana coastline causing insured losses of up to $2 billion, at the latest estimate. August has been our busiest month ever on Artemis, with close to 13,000 active readers over the course of the month and nearly 60% growth since August 2011. We’d like to […]