2025 saw a long-standing pattern reverse within the catastrophe bond market, as diversifying risks began offering spreads comparable or higher than those of traditional peak perils, while valuations between index-linked and indemnity structures normalised, Florian Steiger, CEO of Icosa Investments AG highlighted in a recent report.
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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.
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The year 2012 saw the highest level of indemnity trigger based catastrophe bond issuance on record, with more than 50% of all cat bond volume issued exposed to the indemnity losses of the sponsoring insurer or reinsurer, according to data from Swiss Re’s latest insurance-linked securities market report. The report suggests that this shows that […]
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Catastrophe bond transactions can utilise a range of different types of triggers as points of measure to define whether they have experienced a loss or not. The types of triggers used by cat bond deals have changed over the years the market has existed as some come into favour and others receive less attention. A […]
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The latest Swiss Re sigma study, which I posted about yesterday, contains some great graphics which demonstrate how the market has evolved over time. Imagery makes it really easy to visualise the changes the market has undergone. One particular graphic that I like shows the different types of triggers utilised in transactions over the years. […]
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