Cat bond growth propelled by strong investor demand: Moody’s
Moody’s has reported that the catastrophe bond market saw record issuance in 2020 despite a brief pause in Q2 following a particularly tumultuous period for the financial markets. And looking ahead through 2021, the rating agency expects cat bond issuance to continue to grow with strong investor demand for the asset class, evidenced by a reduction in […]
Global insurance protection gap hit $1.4 trillion high in 2020: Swiss Re
The global insurance protection gap, or the gap between economic losses and those that are insured, widened in 2020 as pandemic related effects drove global macroeconomic resilience to decline by 18%, according to a measure by reinsurance firm Swiss Re. Swiss Re Institute has published its Resilience Index, which shows that the COVID-19 pandemic reduced […]
The only asset class that helps people rebuild after natural disasters
A core reason that insurance-linked securities (ILS), such as catastrophe bonds and other reinsurance linked investments, are considered as socially responsible investments by many allocators is the fact they deploy their capital into natural disaster recovery and rebuilding. While ESG, environment, social and governance factors, are now seen as becoming critical for insurance-linked securities (ILS) […]
More & better “catastrophe-triggered” instruments needed: UN Sec-Gen Guterres
United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres has again said that the world needs more catastrophe-triggered financing and better instruments to support the delivery of climate financing, to enhance disaster resilience, fund adaptation measures and finance climate risk. Speaking today at the Insurance Development Forum’s (IDF) Summit 2021, UN Secretary General Guterres explained the important […]
Tencent shows tech’s appetite to own access to reinsurance capital
Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese multinational technology conglomerate, has provided one of the clearest examples of a tech giant wanting to own its access to reinsurance capital, a trend we’ve been anticipating would emerge. Our regular readers know we have a passion for technology, alongside risk transfer and use of efficient capital, believing that the […]
参数化主权巨灾债券是“一带一路”的保险方式
通过与“一带一路”倡议相关的项目获得中国投资的中亚和东欧国家，应使用参数化主权巨灾债券来确保自身免受自然灾害的风险。 这是保险连结证券（ILS）和主权风险转移专家基里尔·萨符拉索夫（Kirill Savrassov）的观点。 萨夫拉索夫指出：《中国的“一带一路”倡议对中亚和东欧的全面保护方案提出了更高的要求》。 《中国将数百亿美元投入了该地区的基础设施建设，但实际上，其中连一个项目也没适当地投保物理伤害的险，尽管该地区面临着地震和其他自然灾害的高风险》。 在乌兹别克斯坦，哈萨克斯坦或塔吉克斯坦等国家，问题不是地震是否要发生，而是何时要发生，并且其毁灭力量多大。 自然灾害会破坏中国通过“一带一路”倡议帮助该地区发展的许多基础设施项目。如果建造后这种项目因地震而摧毁，那么东道国仍将欠缴中国的贷款，但是不会从基础设施投资中获取收益。 FULL PUBLICATION HERE
Bill reintroduced calling for more NFIP flood reinsurance & cat bonds
A bill has been reintroduced to the United States Congress that again calls on lawmakers to codify that Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as the administrator of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), sets a PML target each year and buys reinsurance and capital market risk transfer solutions accordingly. The Taxpayer Exposure Mitigation Act […]
Collateralized reinsurance renewals firmer than cat bonds or ILW’s
While the catastrophe bond market has been first to experience investor-demand and capacity driven softening, as spreads have increasingly tightened on primary issues over recent months, this isn’t yet reading across to the entire collateralized reinsurance market at the mid-year renewal season, we’re told. 2021 has seen a significant upwell in demand from investors for […]
Catastrophe bond & related ILS set for record $10bn+ H1 in 2021
Issuance of new catastrophe bonds and other related insurance-linked securities (ILS) we track here at Artemis is now set to break new ground for the first-half of 2021, with more than $10 billion of issuance now anticipated, according to our latest data on the market. The total issuance we’ve tracked so far this year that has already […]
TWIA to double Alamo Re 2021 cat bond to $500m
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) is now expected to double in size its new Alamo Re Ltd. (Series 2021-1) catastrophe bond transaction, which will now more than replace a soon to mature $400 million cat bond from 2018. As we were first to report this week, TWIA’s staff said at a meeting on Wednesday that the […]
