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Most insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond investors are holding onto their portfolio positions as they wait to see what the fourth quarter will bring in the way of new opportunities to deploy capital, say investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly fund managers report.

Investor interest in catastrophe bonds, other types of insurance-linked securities and risk or reinsurance linked investment opportunities just keeps growing this year. The news from the broader financial markets continues to look depressing and investors are increasingly seeking out safe-havens to deposit their capital in. Investment opportunities which have a low correlation to the broader […]

Barclays Capital have today announced the launch of a program which aims to streamline issuance of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities while also lowering transaction costs and barriers to entry for issuers. The platform, which is an extension of Barclays Capital’s event-linked swaps business will seek to efficiently and cost-effectively allow for transfer of natural […]

At the beginning of September we wrote about the latest and also the largest private catastrophe bond transaction, Kizuna Re Ltd. Kizuna Re is a $160m cat bond which provides sponsor Tokio Marine with a source of reinsurance cover for Japanese typhoon risks was issued as an unrated private transaction to a small group of […]

Despite a fairly volatile month of trading in the secondary catastrophe bond market during August, market prices continue to reflect strong investor interest in the asset class according to investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly fund managers report. They say that secondary cat bond trading was slow at the start of the month […]

This morning we attended Standard & Poor’s London ILS event, the ‘5th Annual European Insurance-Linked Securities Conference’. This well attended, informative event featured a number of interesting panel discussions including one involving three well known ILS investment managers discussing the increasing trend for pension funds investing in ILS and catastrophe bonds.

Despite the issuance of four new catastrophe bonds, which brought close to $700m in additional investment assets to the insurance-linked securities market, demand remains strong amongst investors seeking to access the sector according to investment manager Clariden Leu in their latest monthly fund managers report.

Diversification is becoming a regular theme of many of our articles as investors seek our ways to keep a good mix of perils in their insurance-linked securities portfolios. The catastrophe bond market recently found itself to consist of 71% U.S. hurricane risks, add to that the slow primary issuance and you have a difficult situation […]

The title of this post is taken from ratings agency Moody’s article regarding the CEA’s recent directly issued catastrophe bond, more on that Moody’s article in our piece published earlier today. Moody’s are suggesting that the conditions are right for a large uptick in the volume of catastrophe bond issuance, particularly if there is another […]

As the primary catastrophe bond market slowed in June, with only a single cat bond transaction being issued  by Loma Re Ltd., the secondary market continued to be calm and saw insurance-linked securities investors holding onto their positions in response to the lack of new investment opportunities.