A corporate cat bond is a cat bond that is sponsored directly, or indirectly, by a company, corporation, or other similar entity.
Increasingly, corporations and companies are accessing the insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets directly, or indirectly with the help of reinsurance market participants, to access the capital market investor appetite for insurance risk.
Corporate cat bond sponsors typically seek protection against peak catastrophe perils through issuance of cat bonds.
A fronting reinsurer, or a captive insurance entity, are often used to interface with the issuing vehicle and act as an intermediary between the corporate sponsor and the capital markets investors, to cascade the cat bond coverage down to the corporate sponsor as insurance protection.
Investment giant Blackstone has returned to the catastrophe bond market for the second time, seeking a $250 million or greater source of multi-peril and indemnity based catastrophe insurance protection for risks held by its real estate funds, from this Wrigley Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) cat bond deal.
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The recently launched and still in the market Acorn Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1) parametric earthquake catastrophe bond transaction has had its target lifted to now as much as $175 million, while at the same time the pricing has been slashed.
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A new parametric earthquake catastrophe bond transaction with a $100 million initial target, named Acorn Re Ltd. (Series 2023-1), will be the first in this series where its coverage will overlap with an existing issuance, presumably reflecting a desire to stagger maturity of catastrophe reinsurance coverage for the beneficiaries.
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Investment giant Blackstone is increasingly focusing on the need to manage risks within its various real estate companies and assets, using risk transfer solutions, insurance and instruments such as catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS).
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Prologis, Inc., the logistics, warehousing and supply-chain focused real estate owner and investor that sponsored its first catastrophe bond in December, a $95 million Logistics Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) cat bond, has highlighted the support of Hemant Shah’s artificial intelligence property data and analytics firm, Archipelago.
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The first catastrophe bond from logistics, warehousing and supply-chain focused real estate owner and investor Prologis, Inc. has now been priced at the top-end of initial guidance, while the issuance size remained at $95 million for the Logistics Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) cat bond issuance.
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The first catastrophe bond from logistics, warehousing and supply-chain focused real estate owner and investor Prologis, Inc. has seen its pricing guidance tighten towards the upper-end, while the issuance size remains at $95 million for the Logistics Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) cat bond issuance.
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Google and its holding company parent Alphabet, Inc. have now successfully secured $275.5 million of California earthquake risk protection from their new catastrophe bond, the Phoenician Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) issuance.
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Google’s holding company parent Alphabet, Inc. is hoping to upsize its third catastrophe bond transaction to provide it with as much as $285 million of California earthquake risk protection from the Phoenician Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) issuance.
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Google’s holding company parent Alphabet, Inc. has returned to the catastrophe bond market for the third time, as it seeks to add another $250 million or more of California earthquake risk protection to its insurance arrangements with the help of insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors in a Phoenician Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) issuance.
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