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It’s been another busy week of news in the markets we cover on Artemis, here’s your Monday morning chance to catch up on the top news you may have missed. We’ve seen further discussion on enabling flood risk to be hedged as derivatives or issued as catastrophe bonds, the CEA begin planning for their next […]

Another week has passed and many new stories have been added to Artemis, here’s your Monday morning chance to catch up on the top news you may have missed. We’ve seen another new catastrophe bond come to market this week, another cat bond upsize while marketing and discussion of the innovation that insurance-linked securities and […]

After another busy week of news in the market here’s your Monday morning chance to catch up. The catastrophe bond market has been busy again this week with new deals completing, other cat bonds still marketing and investors still coming to terms with another loss in the form of Mariah Re 2010-1. If you missed […]

We hope our readers in the U.S. had a good Thanksgiving break with their families! In case you missed some of our news stories from the last seven days, here’s your chance to catch up. The catastrophe bond market has been busy with new deals marketing, including an innovative workers comp linked cat bond, and […]

Another busy week of news in the markets we cover has passed. This week we covered the launch of a Bermuda based cat bond issuance platform promising low-cost low-friction issuance for all, we also wrote about the plans of the TWIA to access the cat bond market during 2012 and another private cat bond issuance, […]

The last week has seen the launch of another catastrophe bond investment opportunity for retail investors, much analysis of the health of the insurance-linked securities market and some insight into potential regulatory pressures which may affect these markets amongst other topics we have covered.  Here’s a chance for our readers to catch up on any […]

The last seven days saw another new cat bond come to market, news of further losses to be faced by investors in U.S. tornado cat bonds, realisation of growing losses in Thailand from the devastating flooding and further discussion of the diversifying nature of insurance-linked securities.  If you missed any of our stories from the […]

Last week was peppered with news of catastrophe and weather events once again, as the flooding in Thailand and earthquake in Turkey dominated much of the industries thoughts. The last week also saw a new catastrophe bond issuance from Swiss Re, closure of the latest Munich Re cat bond and discussion of the best reinsurance-linked […]

The first fourth quarter catastrophe bond has completed and the market is looking at the pipeline of deals hoping that they will all come to market. There’s been a lot of discussion of the non-correlated nature of insurance-linked securities in the last week and commentary on growing investor interest in the asset class. Here, to […]

Unsurprisingly, the Mariah Re tornado catastrophe bonds dominated much of the news last week as the impact of growing covered losses became clearer and investors sought to offload positions in the bonds. The fourth quarter now has its second cat bond marketing and investors will be hoping for a steady stream of new issuances up […]