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It’s time for another of our regular fortnightly looks at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what they can tell us about movements in pricing and returns of outstanding catastrophe bonds and the general sentiment of the cat bond and insurance-linked securities marketplace. When we last looked it […]

After a week dominated by hurricane Isaac’s potential impact on the reinsurance and catastrophe bond market, it’s timely that today we look at the secondary cat bond market indices to see if they give away any market nerves. It’s time for our regular look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article […]

The last two weeks has seen a strong jump in the value of the outstanding catastrophe bond price return index as seasonal effects of the hurricane season have yet to seriously impact price returns. It’s time for our regular look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what […]

In the last two weeks the catastrophe bond price return and total return indices have made steady gains as their return to a more seasonal pattern continues. It’s time for another look at the Swiss Re Cat Bond Performance Indices (our last article here) to see what they can tell us about movements in pricing […]

Reinsurer Swiss Re has released some comments on the completion of their latest extreme mortality securitization, Vita Capital V Ltd. As we wrote earlier today, Vita Capital V successfully completed at $275m yesterday and received its ratings. It’s Swiss Re’s fifth Vita securitization in the last three years and the sixth we have recorded in […]

Swiss Re’s sixth issuance in their series of Vita mortality-linked catastrophe bond (or insurance-linked security) deals has completed successfully. Vita Capital V Ltd. completed and received its formal ratings yesterday after being in the market since we first wrote about the deal three weeks ago, during which time it nearly tripled in size to secure […]

As we wrote recently, Swiss Re are marketing the sixth issuance in their series of Vita mortality-linked catastrophe bond (or insurance-linked security) deals. The transaction, Vita Capital V Ltd. , which has been marketing for two weeks began as a $100m deal split into two tranches of mortality-linked notes according to the rating documentation and […]

In the last fortnight the unseasonal rise of the catastrophe bond price return index has stopped and the trend is now more in line with how we would expect the index to be moving at this time of year, during the U.S. hurricane season. It’s time for our fortnightly look at the Swiss Re Cat […]

It’s that time of year again when our good friends at Environmental Finance announce the winners of their annual awards for companies and deals within the sectors their magazine and website covers. Of particular interest this year is their selection for the Weather Risk Management Deal of the Year. The winner is a weather risk […]

Reinsurer Swiss Re has begun marketing their latest insurance-linked security transaction and this time it’s a deal that the wider ILS investment market should appreciate as it’s a diversifying opportunity and a life transaction. Swiss Re are bringing their latest Vita Capital mortality-linked catastrophe bond to market, their fifth such transaction, being issued through a […]