Recent estimates suggest that insured losses from the Los Angeles, California wildfires could be higher than anticipated. As a result, catastrophe bond prices are showing signs of weakness, with the market’s benchmark recording its first-ever negative January return since its inception over two decades ago, according to cat bond fund manager Icosa Investments AG.With a … Read more
Kaith Re Ltd., the transformer vehicle owned by global reinsurance firm Hannover Re, has issued seven series of private catastrophe bond notes, all Seaside Re (Series 2025), for a total of $84 million of notes sold to investors.Hannover Re remains a key facilitator to ILS market participants and its clients, through the matching of reinsurance … Read more
GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd. has secured its largest catastrophe bond issuance yet, as the Veraison Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) deal has now been priced to provide the company its upsized $450 million target for earthquake reinsurance protection.As we had reported, GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd returned to the cat bond market with an initial target to … Read more
The Los Angeles, California wildfires are a tail event for the peril and will demonstrate the continued and growing relevance of reinsurance, according to RenaissanceRe CEO Kevin O’Donnell, who also explained today that “most of our US property catastrophe programs are loss impacted.”The RenaissanceRe CEO further states that with the scale of the loss impact … Read more
Artemis has learned that GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd. is now targeting as much as $400 million in earthquake reinsurance protection from capital market investors through its new Veraison Re Ltd. (Series 2025-1) catastrophe bond.As we reported earlier this month, GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd ventured back to the cat bond market with an initial target to secure … Read more
