Already in 2024, the dollar amount of new Rule 144A property catastrophe bonds issued and settled has reached the second-highest level on record, with almost $12.8 billion in completed property cat bond deals tracked in the Artemis Deal Directory so far this year.Using our charts you can analyse the mix of issuance we include in … Read more
To find the best high-yield bond mutual funds, we began with the Fidelity Investments screener. Our initial list was 381 funds, including both taxable and tax-exempt municipal bond mutual funds. We screened out all funds with lower than neutral Morningstar rankings. The remaining group included many institutional class funds with minimum initial investments of at … Read more
Insurance and reinsurance broker Aon reported today that year-to-date it has seen a 13% increase in catastrophe bond issuance volumes for the deals it has placed, while President Eric Andersen said the company remains agnostic as to form of coverage placed for clients, saying each has its place in the reinsurance capital stack.Aon said in … Read more
Insurer USAA has returned for what will be the 44th catastrophe bond issuance we have tracked from the company, initially targeting $325 million of occurrence reinsurance protection from a new Residential Reinsurance 2024 Limited (Series 2024-2) deal, Artemis has learned.USAA is the most consistent of catastrophe bond sponsors, that looks to augment and diversify its … Read more
Highlighting the still wide-range of uncertainty in insurance market loss estimates after hurricane Milton, catastrophe bond investment manager Icosa Investments AG has noted that the cat bond market seems not to have discounted prices as widely to account for uncertainty this time.After hurricane Ian, the catastrophe bond market fell by roughly 10% in a sharp … Read more
