Insurance industry experts discuss Hong Kong’s role in supporting the country’s “dual cycle” strategy through captive insurance and reinsurance
The Insurance Regulatory Authority (Insurance Regulatory Authority) today (September 1, 2021) held a panel discussion at the “Belt and Road” Summit Forum 1 to discuss how Hong Kong can leverage on the advantages of its exclusive self-insurance base and reinsurance hub, and consolidate its position in the “October” Under the “Fourth Five-Year Plan”, it has a strategic position as […]
Catastrophe bonds marked down on hurricane Ida threat
A number of catastrophe bonds have been marked down in end of month secondary market pricing sheets, with some of the anticipated names suffering declines of between 25% and 35% in value. After hurricane Ida’s devastating landfall with 150 mph winds in Louisiana on Sunday it was always anticipated that there would be a mark-to-market […]
Retailers need a wholesaler that understands capital markets (ILS): Amwins Sloop
Retail insurance market players need to work with wholesalers that understand insurance-linked securities (ILS), Amwins COO Ben Sloop has explained, suggesting that the access this can give them to efficient sources of reinsurance capital is vital. Amwins recently formally launched a new insurance-linked securities (ILS) partnership with Bermuda based ILS fund manager Integral Integral ILS […]
Cat bond & ILW activity help drive PERILS-based transaction limit higher
An increase in use of PERILS industry loss triggers in industry-loss warranty (ILW) transactions focused on European windstorm risk, plus the buoyant catastrophe bond market, have helped to drive PERILS-based limits at risk up 11% to US $3.2 billion, as of the end of August. PERILS AG, the Zurich-headquartered provide of catastrophe industry loss data […]
Indonesia launches US $500m risk pooling facility. Risk transfer a goal
The government of Indonesia has launched a new disaster risk pooling facility that will initially have more than US $500 million of capacity available to help pay for the economic costs of natural catastrophes and severe weather events, but with a future goal of transferring some or all of the risk to private insurance or […]
APAC reinsurers to continue targeting Insurance-Linked Securities: Fitch
Analysts at Fitch Ratings expect that reinsurers in the Asia Pacific market will continue to adopt alternative capital as a funding source through the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market. The rating agency forecasts additional issuance of catastrophe bonds in the coming months after the seven that were issued using Singapore-domiciled vehicles up to July 2021. Potential […]
Asia’s cat bond & insurance-linked securities market to expand: Fitch
We should expect accelerating catastrophe bond issuance from Asia’s ILS domiciles, more cat bond and insurance-linked securities sponsors to emerge from the region and a gradual increase in use of alternative reinsurance capital in Asia Pacific, according to Fitch Ratings. The rating agency explained in a recent report that it anticipates continued momentum in insurance-linked […]
Bloomberg: Cat-Bond Market Rises to Record With $8.5 Billion of Issuance
Catastrophe bonds broke a record during the first half of the year with about $8.5 billion of new securities issued, according to a report from Swiss Re AG. The insurance-linked securities market could end up with more than $10 billion in issuance for the full year, the reinsurer said in a report released Wednesday. The […]
Cat bond market can grow to $50bn, pandemic risk & ESG are drivers: Swiss Re
After a particularly busy first-half of 2021 for catastrophe bond issuance, global reinsurance firm Swiss Re’s Capital Markets unit believes that a $50 billion market is possible by 2025 and that two drivers of further insurance-linked securities (ILS) market growth could be pandemic risk and ESG. In its latest Insurance-Linked Securities Market Insights report, Swiss […]
BlackRock launches ESG fund with cat bonds a targeted asset
Investor demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) appropriate investment opportunities and asset classes is expected to become a key driver for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market going forwards and a new fund launch from giant asset manager BlackRock only serves to reinforce this belief. While there are still very few insurance-linked securities (ILS) or […]