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The catastrophe bond indices which we track every fortnight here on Artemis have both continued to rise over the last two weeks. The total return index tells a story that will please insurance-linked securities and cat bond fund managers as it shows that attractive cat bond market returns continue. The price return index has not […]

Both the price return and total return of the outstanding catastrophe bond market have continued to rise over the last fortnight as the slightly unusual trend of price firming, some of which has been unseasonal continued. Now that the primary cat bond market has come alive with a number of new issuances during March and […]

The catastrophe bond indices which track the price return and total return of the outstanding catastrophe bond market have continued to fluctuate over the last two weeks but a general upwards trend remains. When we looked at these indices two weeks ago, the primary cat bond issuance market was quiet, and the indices had experienced […]

The index tracking the price return of the outstanding catastrophe bond market has risen again in the last fortnight and at its fastest rate so far in 2013. After a small dip a week ago, likely caused by the large amount of capital interested in catastrophe bonds and ILS as an asset class, the index […]

Over the last two weeks the index we follow that tracks the price return of the outstanding catastrophe bond market has risen at a faster rate, after the start of the year began a little sluggishly. It’s time for another of our regular looks at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, to see what […]

It’s time for another of our regular looks at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, to see what they can tell us about pricing and returns in the secondary market for catastrophe bonds and the markets general sentiment. When we last looked a fortnight ago gains for both indices had slowed in the new […]

It’s two weeks since we last looked at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices, to see what they can tell us about pricing and returns in the secondary market for catastrophe bonds, and the indices have continued to make gains although the upwards trajectory has slowed significantly. When we last looked the indices were […]

Both the primary and secondary catastrophe bond markets were subdued in December as the markets participants continued to assess the fall-out and industry losses that hurricane Sandy had caused. Many insurers and reinsurers had been forced to put their planning and purchasing of U.S. hurricane reinsurance and retrocession on hold and this is thought to […]

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security market delivered investors the third highest annual return of the last decade, according to date from ILS, cat bond and reinsurance consultancy Lane Financial LLC. In a report published recently which looks at statistics from the cat bond market in the fourth quarter of 2012, data shows that 2012 ranked […]

The final quarter of 2012 saw the average rate-on-line of insurance-linked security and catastrophe bond deals rise a little after having seen declines through much of the year, according to the latest quarterly ILS market update from ILS, cat bond and reinsurance consultancy Lane Financial LLC. This could have been an effect of hurricane Sandy […]