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%…
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…