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Despite us being almost a month into the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, when traditionally outstanding catastrophe bonds are seeing declining price returns, the cat bond price return index has continued to rise further recovering some of the ground lost earlier this year. Here’s our fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our […]

Catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities investors look set to benefit as the price and total-return indices have risen strongly in recent weeks after cat bond prices jumped during May and in the first week of June. It’s time for our regular fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) […]

It’s time for another of our regular looks at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what they can tell us about movements in pricing and returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. For the first time in a […]

With primary catastrophe bond issuance still flowing strongly, the latest cat bond Long Point Re III launched last week, investors are still jostling to gain access to and accommodate the latest transactions to come to market. The results of this and other price pressures is a continued decline on price returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds. […]

Skymet Weather Services, a provider of weather data and forecasts to various sectors in India, is planning to launch weather derivative indices on commodity exchanges such as India’s MCX and NCDEX according to a report in the Business Standard newspaper. Skymet are preparing the modelling and structure of weather derivative products in the hope that […]

It’s been just over three weeks since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to see what they can tell us about the movements in pricing and returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. The last time we looked at the […]

It’s two weeks since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to see what they can tell us about the movements in pricing and returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. Last time we looked the price return index had achieved […]

The United Nations climate experts have published a lengthy report looking at mechanisms and methods to help make societies more resilient to natural disasters and severe weather events. The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change discusses the billions of dollars of damages caused by extreme weather and climate events in recent years, whether […]

The downward trend in the catastrophe bond price return index has been a feature of the market since late October 2011. Price returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds have been declining steadily ever since and in 2012 the downward decline has accelerated somewhat with some steeper drops. It’s been forecast that the price return index would […]

Our regular readers will be aware that we follow the movement of the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to see what they can tell us about the movements in pricing of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. Since the 4th quarter of 2011 the price […]