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Catastrophe bond market issuance is typically slow during the peak months of the U.S. hurricane season and 2012 has been no different. August saw no cat bonds complete during the month and just the one, Eurus III Ltd., which began marketing but completes this week. When primary issuance of cat bonds is low, sometimes the […]

This week see’s the global reinsurance industry meet up in Monte Carlo in the south of France for the annual Rendez-vous de September event. At this key industry meeting, executives from the world’s largest reinsurers and brokers meet with each other and with some clients to discuss industry trends and the outlook for reinsurance rates […]

July saw activity in the secondary market for catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities slow down somewhat compared to the prior few months which had seen heightened activity and strong, if somewhat unseasonal price rises. The pattern displayed by price return indices of outstanding catastrophe bonds became much more stable, exhibiting more seasonally expected trends, but […]

The recent unseasonal trend for rising outstanding catastrophe bond prices in the secondary market, when it is more typical for them to be falling at this time of year, has helped Swiss insurance-linked securities investment manager Plenum Investments achieve their best monthly return ever. June saw Plenum’s USD denominated ILS fund return 1.26%, a very […]

The month of May has seen a reversal of the typical seasonal price declines that are seen in U.S. hurricane exposed catastrophe bonds during the first half of the year. These hurricane cat bonds experience seasonal declines in price as thoughts turn to the U.S. hurricane season which is approaching. This year however anticipation of […]

Catastrophe bonds are having a great year so far with issuance hitting record levels in the first quarter and extremely healthy in Q2, details on all the cat bond deals to come to market can be found in our Deal Directory. The wider financial press has been complementary about this growing market and cat bonds […]

Many reinsurers have been reporting price increases in their catastrophe renewal business for 2012 particularly in regions which have been affected by the high insured losses of 2011. According to Zurich based Plenum Investments, an investment manager with a focus on insurance-linked securities, the strong demand for catastrophe reinsurance has in some cases increased prices […]

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The secondary market for trading in catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities saw brisk activity throughout much of 2011. Of particular interest is the trading patterns and how the secondary market reacted to events which impacted these markets. We’ve written before about how catastrophe events and potential hurricanes have impacted secondary market confidence and thus trading […]

Just last week we published an interesting graph which shows how the approaching hurricane Irene affected the price of exposed secondary market catastrophe bonds. Pricing fluctuations in the face of disaster is just one of the effects that the secondary market experiences as a disaster approaches or in the aftermath, the other effect is fluctuations […]