Premise of alternative capital has always been to complement reinsurance: S&P’s Josefs
Speaking in Monte Carlo today at a S&P Global Ratings briefing during the annual reinsurance event, Maren Josefs, Credit Analyst at S&P Global, said it may be time to rethink the name alternative capital, as it was really always designed to complement the traditional reinsurance market and in recent years has become increasingly aligned and […]
Property cat softening to continue. Attachments may fall. ILS investors likely disciplined: Fitch
Speaking today at a briefing held in Monte Carlo at the Rendez-vous event, Fitch Ratings analysts said the expectation is that property catastrophe reinsurance rates will keep softening and attachments may decline somewhat, but through this they anticipate discipline from the ILS investor base. The Fitch Ratings analysts are anticipating the property catastrophe reinsurance market […]
Preserving ILS balance between cedent support & investor reward essential: Albertini, Leadenhall
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has reached a healthier equilibrium, but it is essential to preserve the balance between ensuring cedents are robustly supported and investors are appropriately awarded for putting their capital at risk, Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners told Artemis. Speaking to Artemis around the 2025 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous de Septembre […]
Capital markets key to future insurability and affordability of risk transfer: Swiss Re
Swiss Re has highlighted the capital efficiency that a modern and layered risk transfer architecture brings to the property and casualty insurance market, seeing the capital markets and investors as now key elements in a chain that is supporting growing volumes of global risks. In a new sigma report released today in Monte Carlo, global […]
Central Bank of Barbados Governor cites parametric and cat bond role in Caribbean resilience
Caribbean nations must stop defaulting to adding more debt as the answer after every disaster shock, instead layering the full range of risk transfer and financing tools to enhance liquidity following events and ensure timely, responsive capital flow, according to comments made by the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados. Speaking at the Caribbean […]
Central Bank of Barbados Governor cites parametric and cat bond role in Caribbean resilience
Caribbean nations must stop defaulting to adding more debt as the answer after every disaster shock, instead layering the full range of risk transfer and financing tools to enhance liquidity following events and ensure timely, responsive capital flow, according to comments made by the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados. Speaking at the Caribbean […]
Cat bond market growth to continue, strong issuance expected again in 2026: Moody’s
The catastrophe bond market has become widely accepted as a reinsurance and risk transfer tool, and as the sponsor base increases while risk-adjusted returns for cat bond investors remains attractive, Moody’s Ratings said today it anticipates 2026 could be another busy year for insurance-linked securities (ILS). In a new report on the cat bond market, […]
CEA reinsurance tower stable, but catastrophe bonds grow their share
Following the mid-year reinsurance renewals the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) now sees catastrophe bonds making up an even larger proportion of its more than $7.83 billion risk transfer tower, at over 33% of the limit provided. The earthquake insurer had shrunk its overall reinsurance tower through the last couple of years, but at the same […]
Convergence alive and well as reinsurers increasingly lean on ILS products: Aon’s van Slooten
The convergence of reinsurance and capital markets is “alive and well”, as reinsurers increasingly lean on alternative capital and insurance-linked securities (ILS) products, Mike van Slooten from Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions division explained in a pre-Monte Carlo briefing today. Speaking during the briefing, as the reinsurance broker set out its positioning for its upcoming meetings at […]
Cat bond market growth to continue, strong issuance expected again in 2026: Moody’s
The catastrophe bond market has become widely accepted as a reinsurance and risk transfer tool, and as the sponsor base increases while risk-adjusted returns for cat bond investors remains attractive, Moody’s Ratings said today it anticipates 2026 could be another busy year for insurance-linked securities (ILS). In a new report on the cat bond market, […]