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It’s time for another monthly update on the health of the Swiss Re catastrophe bond indices. Since our last update the catastrophe bond market has burst into a period of rapid issuance with deals such as Residential Re 2010, Mariah Re, Atlas VI Capital, Vitality Re, Lodestone Re, Kortis Capital and Successor X all officially […]

It’s been over a month since our last look at the Swiss Re catastrophe bond indices. Both indices remain at five year highs after strong rises have been the trend all summer. However we have seen the first drop in one of the indices since July.

We are big supporters of microinsurance (particularly weather index-linked insurance) so it’s great to receive a press release which demonstrates exactly what this sector can do to support rural communities and reimburse them financially when weather conditions affect their livelihoods.

It’s time for another look at the health of the insurance-linked security and catastrophe bond indices. Again we bring you data from the Swiss Re pair of indices which give us a good indicator for how the market is fairing and also of investor appetite.

Four initiatives which involve over 100 insurers from around the globe have issued a call to governments worldwide to utilise risk management, risk transfer and insurance techniques and expertise to help the developing world cope with the changing climate.

The Guyanese government have issued a press release calling on the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) to get its much discussed rainfall insurance product ready by year end. The CCRIF teamed up with the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) to create and launch a rainfall model for the Caribbean which can be […]

Alternative Beta Partners, a multi-strategy asset management firm which was spun out of Partners Group, have just issued a press release announcing the launch of its own insurance-linked securities index the ‘AltBeta ILS Index’. They push their index as an alternative to existing indices which they term deficient (they explain that below).

The Swiss Re catastrophe bond indices, which provide us with a measure of the health and investor confidence in the catastrophe bond market, have just completed their sixth rising week in a row. Commentators are attributing this resurgence to the lack of active hurricanes so far this year in the Atlantic ocean and it seems […]

The Life & Longevity Markets Association (LLMA) has proposed a standardises framework for designing, building and producing longevity indices. The proposal aims to provide the longevity risk transfer market with a set of standards to facilitate easier longevity risk transfer transactions and increase transparency.

Sompo Japan has been trialing a weather risk microinsurance product in a region of Thailand since January this year (our article on the launch here). The trial project saw weather index insurance for drought sold in Khon Kaen province in Northeast Thailand. It was the first such microinsurance product made available in Thailand.