A strategy that’s delivered specialist investors huge returns is now facing scrutiny, amid concerns that its risk-reward dynamics might be...
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Marty Malinow’s mom never could get her head around what her son did for a living. To friends, she said...
As bond markets everywhere get battered by a cocktail of higher interest rates, deficit angst and hawkish central bankers, one...
The insurance industry is struggling to adapt to a new normal in which losses fueled by climate change are now...
The World Health Organization says the coronavirus isn’t yet a global pandemic. Bonds that insure against just such a catastrophe...
Leave it to catastrophe bonds to be among the most well-functioning debt markets out there. Issuance of “cat bonds” has...
The images from Houston, Texas, in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey are horrific and heartbreaking, with homes fully submerged and...
Financial markets are showing some signs of volatility these days after exceptionally low indicators since the start of the 2017....
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) remains financially sound and ready for the 2017 hurricane season by once again securing...
Swiss Re AG, Europe’s second-biggest reinsurer, said regulators should prevent catastrophe bonds from being repackaged like subprime mortgages. “It’s important...