Mortality catastrophe bond news

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the spectre of the total return swap counterparty vanished from the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market a number of years ago after Lehman Brothers collapse caused the default of a number of cat bonds they were a swap counterparty to. However there are still deals using a total […]

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the insurance-linked securities market was only about catastrophe risk securitization if you looked at our Deal Directory and in recent months it has been. However, according to panelists at ratings agency Standard & Poor’s recent Insurance 2012 Conference there’s life in life insurance-linked securitization yet, particularly in the securitization […]

Risk modeling firm RMS (Risk Management Solutions) recently held an event in London about their work in the longevity and mortality space and to discuss the upcoming launch of the latest version of their LifeRisks modeling solutions. The event featured talks from RMS staff about their LifeRisks 2.0 product and how it can be used […]

Kortis Capital Ltd., a Cayman Islands domiciled SPV, is to issue a series of longevity-linked insurance-linked securities (or catastrophe bonds) on behalf of cedent Swiss Re. This is the first cat bond type structure used to transfer longevity risks to the capital markets (we believe). Previously Swiss Re have been involved in cat bond transactions […]

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has provided some details on the risk analysis undertaken for the recent Vita Capital IV Ltd. mortality catastrophe bond issued by Swiss Re. The press release from RMS follows below.

Swiss Re have announced completion of their latest issuance under the Vita Capital mortality catastrophe bond scheme. The latest two series of notes have been issued under Vita Capital IV Ltd. and enables Swiss Re to transfer $175m of extreme mortality risk to the capital markets.

Swiss Re have begun marketing for two new series of mortality catastrophe bond notes to be issued by the Vita Capital IV Ltd. special purpose vehicle which is domiciled in the Cayman Islands. These two series of notes will add to the two series Swiss Re issued through Vita Capital IV in the last twelve […]

The life reinsurance landscape is an ever changing beast particularly right now due to the sluggish economic recovery and ever changing regulatory environment according to Standard & Poor’s. In an article published yesterday S&P look at the regulatory environment and what they see the likely changes being.