AXA Climate uses VanderSat data for parametric drought & soil moisture insurance

AXA Climate, the parametric specialist risk transfer unit of global insurance and reinsurance company AXA, has partnered with Dutch satellite technology firm VanderSat on a range of products to enable drought and soil moisture related exposures to be hedged. AXA Climate will utilise data sourced from VanderSat’s microwave data from satellites to derive triggers linked…

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Please don’t adjust your dials.

Hey, friends. Some good news! First up, I finished my “intro to FIRE” course course for Audible and turned in the manuscript. Once the script is approved, I’ll head to the recording studio. Not sure about any projected release date, but we’re moving along. At the same time, it looks like development on the brand-new…

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World Bank pandemic cat bonds & swaps not triggered for payout yet

The World Bank issued pandemic catastrophe bonds, as well as the pandemic risk-linked swaps that were issued at the same time, have not yet been triggered by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic as the growth rate hasn’t reached the necessary level to breach the parametric trigger. No loss payment is due at this time, as the…

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Best of Artemis, week ending 12th April 2020

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 12th April 2020, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm,…

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Who & What are Dividend Aristocrats?

The name of the game is dividend investing.  For nearly 6 years, we have talked non-stop about dividend growth investing on this website.  We are always talking about Dividend Aristocrats, as we always focus on finding companies that increase their dividend.  However, I realized that we have never taken a step back to explain what…

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Lanny’s Dividend Stock Purchase Activity – March 2020

March was the most interesting month, in quite some time, to say the least.  We witnessed many down and up days of over 5%.  As I am typing this, the market has had their best 4 day run since 1974, literally 46 years ago.  This just goes to show you how low the market hit…

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Retro seen more exposed to pandemic claims than property reinsurance: Survey

Retrocessional contracts are seen as likely more exposed to any claims that find their way through from the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, according to the respondents to our recent market survey. The results are now in from our market survey that we launched recently alongside sister publication Reinsurance News asking the insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities…

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