disaster

A new country level study on the economic exposure to natural disasters from risk analysis and mapping firm Maplecroft, suggests that while the U.S. and Japan have the highest economic exposure to natural hazards, it is actually the emerging economies of China, India, Philippines and Indonesia that pose the greatest threat to investors due to […]

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) have issued a press release regarding their involvement in the recently completed Vita Capital IV Ltd. mortality risk catastrophe bond issued on behalf of Swiss Re. It contains a little more detail on the risk modelling tools used to get the transaction to market which we thought would interest our readers. […]

Swiss Re have now published a press release on the completion of their latest catastrophe bond transaction so we felt it worth publishing some of their comments on the transaction. The latest Vital Capital IV Ltd. issuance closed earlier this week, as we wrote here, and secured them $180m of cover for mortality events such […]

Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development arm Impact Forecasting, have published their July 2011 Monthly Cat Recap report which looks at the natural catastrophes that occurred over the course of the month around the world.

Swiss Re have successfully closed the latest in their Vita series of mortality catastrophe bond deals and the two tranches have received their official ratings today. The transaction, which has been issued by their Vita Capital IV Ltd. Cayman Islands domiciled SPV, began marketing in mid-July seeking to secure $100m of cover under the mortality catastrophe […]

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security investment community will be delighted that they have some new opportunities to put their funds to work in transactions offering diversification opportunities today. First, Munich Re began marketing their Queen Street III Capital European windstorm catastrophe bond today and now Swiss Re are returning to the market with two […]

Munich Re has published a report and data on the natural catastrophe loss events which have impacted the world and the reinsurance sector in the first half of 2011. To date, 2011 is now the most disastrous on record according to Munich Re, with total economic losses for the first six months of the year […]

We know that having easy access to information and updates pertaining to recent natural catastrophes around the globe is important to readers of Artemis. So to help our readers access timely information and updates we’ve partnered with catastrophe risk modelling firm EQECAT to give you easy access to their CatWatch™ catastrophe reports.

Aon Benfield have published their Monthly Cat Recap Report for June which is put together by their Impact Forecasting catastrophe modelling and analysis arm. The monthly updates provide a useful review of the events around the globe which will create losses for re/insurers.

As insured loss estimates from the record-setting U.S. tornado season are reported, the potential impact to exposed catastrophe bonds become clearer. The latest update on the cat bond fallout was reported today as Standard & Poor’s announced that they have downgraded the ratings of Mariah Re Ltd.’s Series 2010-1 notes.