Hedge fund Fermat Capital Management expects the market for catastrophe bonds to grow 20% this year, as a product based...
Articles by Gautam Naik
There’s a course-correction underway among financial firms that went all out on ESG hiring just a few years back, according...
The world’s first-ever exchange-traded fund based on catastrophe bonds has failed to get the seed capital it expected after launching...
A bond market designed around natural catastrophes is proving remarkably resilient to a man-made market meltdown. While most markets have...
Insurers are betting on a suite of new AI-driven techniques to better predict surging losses from climate-driven weather catastrophes ranging...
Catastrophe bonds, whose returns have consistently trounced those of high-yield debt markets in recent years, are about to become accessible...
Europe’s insurance watchdog has called for a recalibration of capital requirements to reflect rising climate-driven disasters across the continent. The...
Among natural disasters, wildfires are the great unknown. Even the most-sophisticated scientific models fail to capture all the risk factors...
The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles are unlikely to trigger significant losses for catastrophe bonds designed to capture such risks....
Catastrophe-bond issuance rose to a record this year, increasing the overall market to almost $50 billion, as insurers transferred more...