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…
The main reason to be pessimistic about the war between Iran versus the United States and Israel is the lack of path towards peace. The United States…
With the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) latest loss estimate for 2024’s hurricane Helene understood to be standing higher than the attachment levels for a number of…
Tyler Suksawat and Scott Ferguson recently published “Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks.” The lengthy title sums up the…
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 0.18%…
The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), a large Canadian institutional retirement fund, saw its investment allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) rising in value by approximately 9%…
The last 24 hours were chaotic in the oil futures and equity markets. From the perspective of an East Coast North American time zone, oil futures (both…
A majority of U.S. treasury rates decreased this week. The 30-year treasury rate had a decrease of 0.08%. The 10-year treasury rate had a decrease of 0.11%…