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This year has seen records fall across the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, with the highest ILS issuance seen as well as a record amount of collateralized reinsurance capacity put to work, making 2014 a banner year for the sector.

The outstanding catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market, based on transactions listed in the Artemis Deal Directory, has reached a new all-time high of $23.431 billion, demonstrating that ILS and cat bonds continue to generate strong interest.

The amount of risk capital outstanding in catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities listed in the Artemis Deal Directory has passed a new milestone, reaching a record all-time high of $23.062 billion with the completion of the latest transactions.

For the first time in its approximately sixteen and three-quarter year existence, the catastrophe bond market has hit a new record for the amount of risk capital outstanding, with the market having reached over $19 billion in size for the first time.

Yesterday the Catastrophe Bond Update: First Quarter 2013 report was published by GC Securities, the capital markets specialist arm of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter which is involved in many recent catastrophe bond deals as a structurer, arranger or bookrunner. In an article we published yesterday, we largely covered the discussion of the growing influence that […]

The catastrophe bond market finished 2012 on a high reaching a record for the total volume of cat bonds outstanding at the end of the year of just over $16.5 billion, according to reinsurance broker Aon Benfield’s figures in its annual review of the catastrophe bond market. Issuance of new cat bonds was at the […]

2012 has been a landmark year for the catastrophe bond market, with the second highest level of issuance on record (as we wrote back in October here) for a single year which, according to insight from Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) has now taken the cat bond market to an all time high in terms […]

Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield has published its latest reinsurance market outlook report covering the state of the market at mid-year (our article from earlier today on this report can be found here). The report also includes some commentary on the capital markets side of reinsurance, specifically on the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market. They […]

Yesterday we wrote about Swiss Re’s latest insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond market update report which see’s the reinsurer review the state of the ILS market during the first-half of 2012. Swiss Re give the ILS and cat bond sector a clean bill of health and are bullish on its opportunity to achieve further growth […]

During the first six months of 2012 catastrophe bonds have continued to play an important, and growing, role in the property catastrophe risk transfer market, says a latest quarterly reinsurance market report published today by broker Guy Carpenter. The year to date has seen particularly robust issuance levels of new cat bonds and so far […]