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The last two weeks has seen a strong jump in the value of the outstanding catastrophe bond price return index as seasonal effects of the hurricane season have yet to seriously impact price returns. It’s time for our regular look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what […]

In the last two weeks the catastrophe bond price return and total return indices have made steady gains as their return to a more seasonal pattern continues. It’s time for another look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what they can tell us about movements in pricing […]

In the last fortnight the unseasonal rise of the catastrophe bond price return index has stopped and the trend is now more in line with how we would expect the index to be moving at this time of year, during the U.S. hurricane season. It’s time for our fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat […]

We’ve written a number of times recently about the unseasonal returns that the outstanding catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security market has been achieving in recent months. The unseasonal price returns demonstrated by cat bond market indices have continued through June and have only begun to slow into the start of July as seasonality in secondary […]

Our regular readers will be aware that we’ve been following the unseasonal price rises in the secondary catastrophe bond market with interest. Outstanding cat bonds have seen price returns continue to rise well into the U.S. hurricane season which is very unusual. Here’s our latest fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices […]

Despite us being almost a month into the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, when traditionally outstanding catastrophe bonds are seeing declining price returns, the cat bond price return index has continued to rise further recovering some of the ground lost earlier this year. Here’s our fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our […]

Catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities investors look set to benefit as the price and total-return indices have risen strongly in recent weeks after cat bond prices jumped during May and in the first week of June. It’s time for our regular fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) […]

It’s time for another of our regular looks at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what they can tell us about movements in pricing and returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. For the first time in a […]

With primary catastrophe bond issuance still flowing strongly, the latest cat bond Long Point Re III launched last week, investors are still jostling to gain access to and accommodate the latest transactions to come to market. The results of this and other price pressures is a continued decline on price returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds. […]

It’s been just over three weeks since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices to see what they can tell us about the movements in pricing and returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. The last time we looked at the […]