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Hurricane Isaac has begun to come ashore in southeast Louisiana, read our latest article on the storms impacts and progress here. We’ve discussed the potential weather impacts extensively in that article but here we’re going to look at the potential reinsurance, insurance and also catastrophe bond impacts that could result from the first hurricane to […]

As securities go, catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities are relatively short duration, with an average lifespan of three years. This means that while new issuance flows into the market there is a constant stream of transactions maturing, coming off risk and freeing up investor capital allowing it to be deployed into the new transactions. A […]

Many reinsurers have been reporting price increases in their catastrophe renewal business for 2012 particularly in regions which have been affected by the high insured losses of 2011. According to Zurich based Plenum Investments, an investment manager with a focus on insurance-linked securities, the strong demand for catastrophe reinsurance has in some cases increased prices […]

The new catastrophe bond which has been issued on behalf of Japanese cooperative insurer Zenkyoren by sponsor Hannover Re, Kibou Ltd., has now completed and managed to double in size before close demonstrating the attractiveness of the diversifying peril that was on offer. Kibou Ltd. was successfully completed and will provide Hannover Re with $300m […]

The pipeline for new catastrophe bond issuance in 2012 is beginning to look very busy with deals launching in the last week and hoping to complete quickly.We know of three new transactions which are currently being marketed and hear of more which should launch soon, possibly by month end. The three transactions which are actively […]

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has begun to resolve the issues surrounding ratings of 16 catastrophe bond tranches which use the Risk Management Solutions (RMS) U.S. hurricane model. RMS released a new risk model earlier this year which S&P felt had sufficiently changed the risk profile of the transactions to warrant placing them on CreditWatch negative […]

U.S. mutual fund manager Pioneer Investments reports that total net assets for its interval style insurance-linked securities and reinsurance linked investment fund, the Pioneer ILS Interval Fund, have grown 18% to $64.4m.

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P) has affirmed the rating for 18 tranches of natural peril catastrophe bonds, from seven issuers, after each tranche of notes went through their annual resets with no issues arising.

The total volume of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issued during 2013 and listed in the Artemis Deal Directory hit $7.6417 billion by the end of the year as a flurry of deals in December closed the year at an all time high of $20.5 billion.

The catastrophe bond and insurance-linked security primary market had an active year in 2012, with total issuance over the course of the year helping 2012 become the second highest volume of issuance recorded in a single year. Cat bonds and ILS in 2012 saw both repeat issuers and sponsors return to the market, as well […]