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The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), through the World Bank, was one of eight new sponsors to come to the cat bond market in the first half of 2014, pushing total issuance volumes above $6bn
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Can the Sharpe ratio be applied to ILS?
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a letter last month that suggests that directors of catastrophe bond issuers may have to seek no-action relief from the CFTC from registration as commodity pool operators (CPOs).
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As the property cat reinsurance market continues to soften, many state-backed US insurance pools are significantly expanding their levels of cover.
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Bermudian reinsurers have taken advantage of falling rates and ceded a significantly higher proportion of their business to retro writers in the first quarter of 2014, according to analysis from sister publication Inside Data.
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In this special project, Trading Risk worked with modelling agencies to highlight the range of expected loss outcomes from cascading annual aggregate cat bonds.
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How does the US hurricane season impact ILS valuations?
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Over the past year the number of reinsurer sidecars and collateralised vehicles has proliferated, allowing reinsurers to leverage their underwriting expertise and distribution networks and giving investors exposure to unique asset classes
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Investors are expanding the array of risks they are interested in as they seek to diversify their reinsurance portfolios, according to Mike Millette, global head of structured finance at Goldman Sachs
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Alternative reinsurers and cat bond investors captured 17.6 percent of premiums ceded by the top 10 Florida personal and commercial residential insurers in 2013, up from 14 percent in 2012, according to data collected by Trading Risk
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The Everglades Re renewal from Florida Citizens Property Insurance offered one of the starkest examples of the swingeing rate reductions that have occurred in the Sunshine State over the past two years
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Single-shot reinsurance covers are increasingly being deployed as cascading covers that include an element of aggregate risk, in a sign that the sharp softening seen in the run-up to the 1 June Florida renewals has started to spread from pricing to terms and conditions.