insurance securitization

The outstanding market for catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) reached a new all-time high at the end of the first-quarter of 2022, as a busy start to the year took Artemis’ measure of the sector to $37.5 billion.

The market for catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) saw records broken once again in 2021, as annual issuance surpassed the previous high set a year ago and reached $14 billion across pure property cat bonds, other line of business cat bonds and private deals, according to Artemis’ data.

The catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has set another new record, as the amount of issuance we’ve recorded across a twelve-month period to end of September 2021 reached a new all-time-high.

Catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance continued at record pace through the third-quarter of 2021, with over $2.7 billion of new risk capital issued and the market now well on-track to beat all its records in 2021, according to the latest report and data from Artemis.

Activity in the catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) market accelerated again in the second-quarter of 2021, with the three-months seeing an incredible $8.5 billion of new risk capital come to market, according to the latest report and data from Artemis.

According to a rating report from KBRA, ILS Capital Management’s reinsurance company Prospero Re Ltd. reported an improved accident year combined ratio for 2020, but its calendar year result was affected by loss creep largely related to 2018’s typhoon Jebi.

Catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance provided investors with both peril and regional diversification in the first-quarter of 2021, as shown by the Artemis Deal Directory.

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published a new document that discusses the practice of side-pocketing within the insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry and explains the need for strong governance, transparency and robust disclosure when it comes to reserving for potential losses.

Strong investor appetite enabled sponsors of traditional 144A catastrophe bond transactions to upsize target levels of reinsurance protection during the first-quarter of the year.

The outstanding market size of catastrophe bonds and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) continued to grow in the first-quarter of 2021, reaching new highs of $34.34 billion, based on property cat, life, health and specialty or other line of business cat bonds, or $48.13 billion if you include the mortgage ILS deals we have listed on […]