In the absence of traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz quickly, oil prices will rise a lot. Forecasts of $200/barrel are coming from some analysts, and…
Aon, the global insurance and reinsurance broking group, has expanded its Automated Event Response (AER) service to include US severe convective storms (SCS), further assisting carriers to…
In an earlier article, I did an over-simplified discussion of how a local public bank would interact with municipal bond issuance. There was some ambiguities that I…
A majority of U.S. treasury rates increased for the third consecutive week. The 30-year treasury rate had an increase of 0.06%. The 10-year treasury rate had an…
USAA is adding a retained quota share layer to the stated reinsurance for some of its annual aggregate Residential Re catastrophe bonds for their next loss occurrence…
I am about to write another article for publication tomorrow (I hope), but just wanted to express my dismay about the situation in the Gulf.We appear to…
A majority of U.S. treasury rates increased this week. The 30-year treasury rate had an increase of 0.13%. The 10-year treasury rate had an increase of 0.13%…
US insurer Allstate has announced an estimated pre-tax catastrophe loss burden for the month of February 2026 of $140 million, which has lifted the total for the…