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%…
SageSure’s successful sponsorship of its latest catastrophe bond, the $175 million Gateway Re Ltd. (Series 2026-2) issuance, is a testament to the transparency and performance of the managing…
The main global economic risk associated with the renewed war against Iran is an energy price spike. (Regional problems are very easy to see.) I discussed energy…
Global re/insurer Chubb has reported that it ceded more risk in premium terms to its third-party capitalised total-return reinsurance joint-venture ABR Re in 2025, while the reinsurance…
Everest Group, the global insurance and reinsurance specialist, benefited from a $35 million dividend payment from its Mt. Logan Re Ltd., third-party capitalised sidecar-like structure in 2025,…
This article is a preliminary unedited draft section of my inflation manuscript. There are therefore references to other “sections” and charts in those sections that the reader…