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Parametric cat bond triggers may face NOAA disaster database wind-down uncertainty: AM Best – Go Health Pro

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Parametric cat bond triggers may face NOAA disaster database wind-down uncertainty: AM Best – Go Health Pro

The decommissioning of NOAA’s billion-dollar weather disaster database could force a rethink of parametric triggers used in catastrophe bonds and hamper insurers’ ability to model and price secondary perils, according to global ratings agency AM Best.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently announced  that its billion-dollar weather and climate disasters database, which tracks U.S. … Read more

Kingstone secures debut 1886 Re cat bond 25% upsized at $125m – Go Health Pro

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Kingstone secures debut 1886 Re cat bond 25% upsized at 5m – Go Health Pro

Kingstone Companies, the New York and northeast US focused insurer, has now successfully priced its 1886 Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) debut catastrophe bond to provide a 25% upsized $125 million of named storm reinsurance protection, with the spread finalised in the lower-half of guidance, Artemis has learned.Kingstone Companies made its debut in the cat bond … Read more

NCIUA’s recent catastrophe bond included integrated disaster-resilience feature – Go Health Pro

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NCIUA’s recent catastrophe bond included integrated disaster-resilience feature – Go Health Pro

The North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCIUA) has become the first catastrophe bond sponsor to benefit from an issuance that has disaster-resilience features integrated in it, with its recent $600 million Cape Lookout Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) the very first cat bond to include an additional resilience feature.As a result, this recent cat bond deal … Read more

Catastrophe bond H1 issuance record already broken. Market expands 12% year-to-date – Go Health Pro

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Catastrophe bond H1 issuance record already broken. Market expands 12% year-to-date – Go Health Pro

As May issuance continues to build, including the latest new catastrophe bond issues that are settling today, Artemis’ data on cat bond market issuance has now exceeded the previous record for the first-half of the year, with almost $12.64 billion of tracked deals completed so far in 2025.Even more impressively, once the pipeline of deals … Read more

UCITS cat bond funds positive for April, but flat at first pricing in May – Go Health Pro

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UCITS cat bond funds positive for April, but flat at first pricing in May – Go Health Pro

We’ve published this article as an earlier piece on UCITS catastrophe bond fund performance was incorrect, there was an error in the data we received. Based on new data, the average return of UCITS cat bond funds tracked by the Plenum CAT Bond UCITS Fund Indices was flat at the first pricing in May, but … Read more