A bond market designed around natural catastrophes is proving remarkably resilient to a man-made market meltdown. While most markets have...
Articles by Gautam Naik
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...
The European Central Bank and the region’s insurance authority proposed a two-pronged approach to increase insurance coverage for floods, storms...
Top insurance companies suffered $10.6 billion of climate-attributed losses this year, just shy of the $11.3 billion of direct premiums...
After emerging from an unusually active hurricane season with market-beating returns, catastrophe bonds are rapidly adding investors. Despite the increase...