pricing

As ever there is a lot of talk in the market about rates, pricing and which way these will go at the 1st January 2012 renewals when a large amount of the worlds reinsurance treaties are renewed. Currently it looks like the trend seen throughout this year will continue, some rises in catastrophe hit regions […]

It’s the 1st of July so expect a flurry of posts about the reinsurance renewals season from us over the next few days. Guy Carpenter have released their renewals report this morning and it contains a little insight into how the industry loss warranty market and reinsurance prices are moving at the renewals.

The industry loss warranty market has seen price rises across the board since the start of the year according to a report from specialist reinsurance broker and consultancy JLT Re. The report looks at the state of the reinsurance market including industry loss warranties after the 1st June property catastrophe reinsurance renewals.

The 11th March earthquake which struck Japan causing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage and killing tens of thousands of people also made an impact on the catastrophe bond market, particularly on the pricing spread between their bid and ask prices.

Normally we refer once a month to the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices and that is enough as their movement is rarely sudden. The events in Japan however were highly unusual and after exceptional events such as the tragic earthquake and tsunami disaster the catastrophe bond indices are a good sign of how the […]

It’s been a month since we last looked at the Swiss Re catastrophe bond indices to see what they signal as to the health of the market. The downward trend in pricing which was experienced through all of December has halted and a small rebound in pricing has been seen through January.

The outlook for the catastrophe bond market in 2011 looks good. 2010 has finished on a particularly strong note, with issuance accelerating right up to the end of the year helping to bring 2010 cat bond issuance to around $5 billion. A number of factors should help the market maintain this momentum as we move […]

Twelve Capital, an investment manager with a specialism in insurance-linked securities investments have today published the first issue of a new periodical publication which gives their perspectives on issues pertinent to their investment clients. The publication will also be of interest to anyone involved in the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond sectors.

As we all know, reinsurance pricing has been softening of late and this means there is plenty of reinsurance capacity available at good prices for insurers to snap up. This has been making the insurance-linked security and catastrophe bond market seem more expensive and less competitive as an alternative hedging mechanism, but perhaps that trend […]

Another month has passed since our last post looking at the health of the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond indices which are published by Swiss Re. These indices give us a good indication of the health of cat bond prices and returns and also investor activity and appetite.