Annual catastrophe bond issuance reached $7.0 billion – a decrease on the record-breaking prior year ($9.4 billion), yet still the...
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The catastrophe bond market will continue to grow by 10 to 20 percent per year, driven in part by the...
A public-private, cyber-catastrophe reinsurance arrangement would improve the UK’s resilience against the growing threat of cyber risks in this interconnected...
Specialty insurer and reinsurer AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd and PartnerRe Ltd agreed to sweeten the terms of their merger agreement...
After two years of price decreases averaging 15 percent on U.S. property catastrophe placements, risk-adjusted pricing moderated at the most...
Trading conditions are difficult in the London market as insurers contend with changing buying habits, an influx of alternative capital...
A special report from A.M. Best notes that “for publicly traded reinsurance companies, stock prices ended the first quarter of...
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Capital Markets (JLTCM) Inc., part of JLT Re, has arranged a private placement catastrophe bond, Market Re...
Swiss Re, Europe’s second-biggest reinsurer, said regulators should prevent catastrophe bonds from being repackaged like subprime mortgages. “It’s important for...
The Philippines suffered $13 billion of damage when Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through the country in 2013, a year after...