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The bond protects against losses in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia.
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The $2.59bn renewal is up 45% from last year.
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The total cost excluding a 15% quota share was $201.85mn, with rates down 12.2% from last year.
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Most of the losses are attributable to a supercell storm in Texas.
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The company also has $100mn for US hurricane events.
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Property cat XoL rates were off by around 10% on average on a blended risk-adjusted basis.
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The index provider revised up its return for March by 0.39 percentage points to 1.21%.
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The Swiss pension fund has not disclosed an ILS allocation before.
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The Peak Re subsidiary mainly writes US motor and casualty reinsurance.
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The deals covered Euro wind and Italy quake, Florida hurricane and a retro bond.
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The ILS market has won market share at the top of programmes as buying expands.
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SCS can no longer be considered a "secondary" peril for the US insurance market, Steve Bowen said.