Private cat bond news

Kane, the global independent insurance manager, has launched a private catastrophe bond issuance platform and a first series of notes has been issued. The private catastrophe bond notes have been issued through the Kane SAC Limited Note Program, a platform Kane has established to assist private ILS sponsors.

The capital markets and private catastrophe bond specialist arm of professional services firm Towers Watson has announced the completion of its latest privately placed cat bond deal. Towers Watson Capital Markets (TWCM) has successfully placed a third cat bond for a Florida insurer through the Oak Leaf Re special purpose vehicle.

Very interesting news has just come in that Tokio Solution Management Ltd., the collateralized reinsurance and insurance-linked securities arm of reinsurer Tokio Millennium Re, and GC Securities, the capital markets arm of broker Guy Carpenter, have teamed up to create and launch a private catastrophe bond platform called the Tokio Tensai™ Platform.

According to a recently published update LGT Insurance-Linked Strategies, the insurance-linked securities and reinsurance-linked investment manager, has participated in another private catastrophe bond transaction. The transaction appears to have been completed recently and LGT participated as the sole investor.

A third privately marketed and placed catastrophe bond transaction is being issued through Oak Leaf Re Ltd., a Bermuda domiciled special purpose insurer according to the market. The transaction, Oak Leaf Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1), is seeking a source of fully-collateralized, indemnity based reinsurance protection from Florida hurricanes for a homeowners insurer in the state, […]

The capital markets and private cat bond specialist arm of professional services firm Towers Watson has completed the issuance and placement of its fourth privately placed catastrophe bond transaction, the $20m Sunshine Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1). Operating in multiple roles, Towers Watson Capital Markets (TWCM) has structured, arranged, acted as bookrunner and placed this cat […]

Bermuda based reinsurer RenaissanceRe has shown its willingness to be flexible and meet investors needs in the management and deployment of third-party reinsurance capital. The reinsurer has recently used securitization as a tool for managing third-party capital and meeting investors needs for the first time and has ceded catastrophe risk to an investor through a […]

We’ve covered the recently completed Skyline Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) private catastrophe bond placement in some detail in our original article announcing the transaction and a follow-up where we talked at some length with Towers Watson Capital Markets (TWCM) about its role in structuring and placing the cat bond. However to date we had not […]

The Skyline Re Ltd. (Series 2013-1) private catastrophe bond placement, which we first wrote about back in December here, has been successfully completed. The transaction upsized from the $50m it was initially marketed at to complete at $72m of limit ($61.2m of notes issued). Private cat bond specialist Towers Watson Capital Markets (TWCM) structured, arranged and placed […]

According to sources, Towers Watson Capital Markets (TWCM) are in the process of marketing and placing another private catastrophe bond transaction on behalf of a U.S. primary insurer. The private placement is looking to secure at least $50m of multi-peril cover for the sponsor, with covered perils being New Madrid earthquake, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. […]