indemnity cat bond

Over the last year and through the record-levels of issuance in 2026 so far, the catastrophe bond market’s outstanding exposure has shifted further towards indemnity triggers and per-occurrence coverage, as preference for these types of deals continues to rise, both on the sponsor and investor side.

With the first half of 2026 another remarkable period for catastrophe bond issuance, but the market remaining heavily concentrated on North American peak risks, a recent report by Icosa Investments AG has highlighted how diversifiers and normalised valuations between industry-loss-linked and indemnity structures is opening up additional relative-value opportunities.

An interesting question was raised at the recent 2014 Bermuda in Boston conference held by investment bank Macquarie, whether ILS investors are being compensated sufficiently for uncertainty in some indemnity catastrophe bonds and ILS transactions.

Property Claims Services (PCS), a division of Verisk and the leading source of data on insured property losses from catastrophes in the U.S., has published an interesting report on indemnity catastrophe bonds today. The report highlights, what PCS considers, five key issues that investors in indemnity cat bonds need to be aware of.