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Mexico’s sustainable World Bank cat bond grows 14% to reach $485m

Mexico’s latest World Bank supported catastrophe bond, the IBRD / FONDEN 2020 transaction, has now successfully secured $485 million of capital markets backed natural disaster insurance protection for the country, upsizing by 14% thanks to investor demand. The successful pricing of this latest World Bank facilitate catastrophe bond issuance means that the government of Mexico…

Mitsui Sumitomo sponsors $75m Akibare Re 2020 Japan typhoon & flood cat bond

Mitsui Sumitomo, an MS&AD Holdings insurance company, has returned to the catastrophe bond market to top-up its capital markets backed reinsurance protection with a currently $75 million Akibare Re Pte. Ltd. (Series 2020-1) Japan typhoon and flood risk transaction. This new Akibare Re catastrophe bond is the fifth transaction to take that name and is…

Pandemic cat bond price plummets on growing coronavirus threat

The secondary market price for the tranche of the World Bank’s pandemic catastrophe bond that is most at-risk of paying out due to the spreading global coronavirus outbreak has plummeted, while the lower risk tranche has now also been marked down. As we explained last week, secondary market pricing for the World Bank’s pandemic catastrophe…

15 best paid survey sites in 2020

If you have some spare time and are looking for ways to make a little extra money, you could try filling out surveys for money. With survey companies paying out millions of dollars to users each year, it’s a legitimate way to earn an income online. Or is it? There’s a natural skepticism whenever this…

Insured losses from Australia’s January hailstorms rise 26% to A$805m

Insured losses from the severe hailstorms that struck the southeastern region of Australia in January have risen by another 26%, with the latest estimate of insurance and reinsurance industry losses now sitting at A$805 million (around US $503m). This loss emanated from an outbreak of severe convective weather, thunderstorms, large hail and flooding affected a…

Best of Artemis, week ending 1st March 2020

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 1st March 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,…

Lanny’s February Dividend Income Summary

Currently is ice raining here in Cleveland. However, for the most part, winter has been warm and even sunny on a few days. One thing, though, is certain. Dividend income arrives – rain, snow or shine baby! Time to warm up and check on the dividend income that my stock portfolio delivered last month! Dividend…

2020 Value Stocks List: Lowest P/E Stocks (+The Top 3 Value Stocks Now)

Published on February 28th, 2020 by Bob Ciura Value investing is a broad term, and can mean different things to different investors. Value investors typically look for cheap stocks, although there is no single definition of what constitutes a cheap stock. Generally, value investors look for stocks that are trading below intrinsic value. This is…

Pandemic cat bond prices to drop again on coronavirus spread: Plenum

Secondary market pricing for the World Bank’s pandemic catastrophe bond notes are set to decline, significantly for one tranche, after the coronavirus outbreaks spread resulted in a second triggering condition being met, Plenum Investments believes. While the pandemic cat bond issued by the World Bank has not yet been triggered and so no payout is…