Pension funds are turning to specialist bonds that bet on the likelihood of a natural disaster, in a search for...
Articles by Sarah Mortimer
Fine art insurers face claims of up to half a billion dollars, their biggest ever payout, to compensate the owners...
Investors who have put their money into specialist financial bonds which cover insurance companies from huge natural disasters are unlikely...
A major hurricane landfall in Florida could strain leading global reinsurers that have already been buffeted by brutal tornadoes in...
A string of earthquakes in New Zealand is sending tremors through the global insurance market with some companies delaying underwriting...
Swiss Re is to reinsure a five-year project that provides drought insurance for crops in Ethiopia, in a microinsurance program...
The catastrophe bond market seems to have survived the Japanese earthquake, its biggest test since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, with...
The Japanese earthquake is set to be the first natural disaster that triggers a number of catastrophe bonds, surpassing Hurricane...
New Zealand’s government may have to recapitalize its crucial national disaster safety fund after being hit by two major earthquakes...
Investment banks looking to profit as companies try to insure the risk they will pay pensions for longer have a...