Mortality catastrophe bond news

The first extreme mortality insurance-linked security transaction of 2013 is coming to market, a deal which will be welcomed by many investors seeking diversification. Atlas IX Capital Limited (Series 2013-1) is being launched for sponsoring French reinsurer SCOR and will provide it with retrocessional protection.

Fitch Ratings has again affirmed the rating of Signum Finance Cayman Ltd. Series 2010-09, a mortality linked life insurance securitization transaction. The ratings agency cited the positive mortality experience, which remains below 100% of the actual-to-expected figure and well below the trigger level.

Catastrophe risk modeller AIR Worldwide has announced the launch of a new Pandemic Flu Model. AIR has developed the Pandemic Flu Model to capture the excess morbidity, mortality, and insurance losses caused by pandemic influenza events around the world. The model could be leveraged within mortality catastrophe bond transactions.

Back in December we wrote that reinsurer Swiss Re had planned to redeem two tranches of mortality catastrophe bond notes issued through its Vita Capital IV Ltd. vehicle. It turns out we’d jumped the gun on one of those and according to a clarification published by rating agency S&P the $75m Series I Class E […]

Reinsurer Swiss Re has chosen to utilise an early redemption clause to redeem two tranches of mortality catastrophe bond notes issued through its Vita Capital IV Ltd. vehicle. The first tranche is the $75m Vita Capital IV Series 1 notes which were issued in November 2009, the second tranche is the $50m Series II issuance […]

Reinsurer Swiss Re have successfully completed their latest catastrophe bond deal, securing themselves a multi-year $200m source of North Atlantic hurricane and UK mortality protection. Mythen Re Ltd. (Series 2012-2) is the first cat bond offering to combine natural catastrophe risk with extreme mortality in a single tranche of notes making this a step forward […]

Swiss Re’s latest transaction in the catastrophe bond market, Mythen Re Ltd. (Series 2012-2), has been given its preliminary ratings by S&P this morning. The novel cat bond deal is the first to bring a tranche of notes with exposure to both hurricane and mortality risk to market. Last week we wrote that one of […]

Swiss Re’s latest catastrophe bond deal, which is the first to ever hit the market with a tranche covering both catastrophe and extreme mortality risks, has had one class of notes withdrawn during marketing according to our sources. The Mythen Re Ltd. (Series 2012-2) cat bond, through which Swiss Re are seeking a source of cover […]

Reinsurer Swiss Re are bringing another new catastrophe bond to market. It is the second cat bond from Swiss Re to carry the Mythen name, named after Swiss Re’s head-office location on Mythenquai in Zurich, after they successfully issued Mythen Ltd. in May. The new cat bond is called Mythen Re Ltd. (Series 2012-2) and it […]

RMS have today announced the launch of a new version of their RMS LifeRisks™ modelling platform. The LifeRisks product is a risk modelling platform for the life insurance and pension risk management industry (reinsurers with exposure to those lines of business too, we assume). It is designed to enable them to accurately model the impacts […]