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Two weeks have passed since our last look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to assess how their performance had improved, or otherwise. Both of the indices climbed strongly during the week ending the 30th September but in the last week ending the 7th October the climb faltered caused by the impact of […]

The Verisk Catastrophe Index created by risk information and analysis firm Verisk Analytics just over a year ago, has won an industry award naming it the Re/Insurance Initiative of the Year at the Worldwide Reinsurance Awards in London recently. The catastrophe index provides high resolution insured property loss estimates, by county and line of business, […]

Another fortnight has passed since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to assess how their performance had improved, or otherwise. The indices have both climbed strongly in the last two weeks and completely recovered all losses experienced as hurricane Irene approached. The price returns index remains significantly down on the […]

The market for longevity risk trading, which many say has huge potential, could use exchange traded funds (ETF’s) as a trading mechanism once the market has enough liquidity, according to this article from IPE.com. When that liquidity will come is a question that the subject of the article Deutsche Börse would like to have answered.

It’s time for another of our regular quick looks at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to see how their performance reflected the mood and state of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market over the last fortnight. When we last looked both of the indices had dropped due to nervousness caused by a major […]

It’s two weeks since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, so it’s time to see how their performance reflected the mood and state of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market over the last fortnight. As expected, both the price and total return indices have suffered a significant drop as […]

It’s two weeks since our last look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, so it’s time to see how their performance reflected the mood and state of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market over the last fortnight. Both of the indexes have risen since our last look at them and the total […]

Since our last look a fortnight ago at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, to see how their performance reflected the mood and state of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market, both indices are now showing positive upwards growth. The price return index has reversed a four week decline and has recovered some […]

Allianz Reinsurance have announced a new technology based approach to crop insurance that they have been working on. In cooperation with software company Sarmap, who specialise in finding ways to better manage earths resources, they have developed radar-based remote sensing software which will not only allow measurement of biomass growth, but also monitors and measures […]

Aon Benfield have today published their report on the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market for the 2nd quarter of 2011. The report, titled ILS Second Quarter Update 2011, looks back at issuance during the last quarter and contains a number of interesting topics which we’ll endeavour to cover for you where relevant and where […]