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USAA have successfully issued their 16th natural catastrophe bond recently through their latest Cayman Islands domiciled special purpose vehicle Residential Reinsurance 2011 Ltd. The four year deal was marketed at around $200m in size but USAA have managed to secure $250m of cover through this their latest cat bond demonstrating that despite a quiet market […]

Standard & Poor’s has announced that it has reconsidered the preliminary rating that it assigned to the Class 5 tranche of catastrophe bond Residential Reinsurance 2011 Ltd. when it was first marketed earlier this month (previous article here). Originally S&P had assigned the Class 5 notes a rating of ‘B’ but today they have raised […]

USAA are seeking a return to the catastrophe bond market with the latest in their Residential Reinsurance series of transactions. Three tranches of Series 2011-1 notes are being issued by Cayman Islands domiciled special purpose reinsurance vehicle Residential Reinsurance 2011 Ltd. It will be their 16th natural catastrophe securitization to date.

Further details have now emerged on the latest catastrophe bond transaction (which we wrote about earlier this month) to be issued under the Residential Reinsurance name. Residential Reinsurance 2010 has been given a preliminary size of $375m, split over three tranches, although we believe that amount could grow due to demand for this the 14th […]