Catastrophe bond market insurance risk spreads, or the discount margin, increased by roughly 6% in the month of December 2025 ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The market for wildfire catastrophe bonds surged in 2025, with more than $5bn in new issuance — more ...

The California FAIR Plan, having recently come to market to sponsor its debut wildfire catastrophe bond and secured $750 ...

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Hurricane Milton's impact on Florida won't cause major losses for catastrophe bond investors, portfolio managers say. Catastrophe bonds help insurers transfer weather event risks to investors.

Catastrophe bonds are insurance-linked securities that offset major costs to taxpayers and insurers caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Cat bonds, as they are known, work ...

Harvey is a good cat who does bad things. Specifically, he does his business under the dining room table. It's not Harvey's fault, of course. Harvey is not a bad cat. No cat is bad, say the people who ...

A cat cafe and adoption shelter in Oakland that was broken into earlier this week has some pawsitive news. After an intruder smashed one of Cat Town’s windows, two of the shelter’s cats disappeared ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Nearly a dozen South Bay cats are resting comfortably in various adoptive homes after a near catastrophe. This, after a two-car collision sent one vehicle into an exterior wall of a ...

Rounding the corner of 2022 into 2023, the property market outlook is a little greyer. Rounding the corner of 2022 into 2023, the property market outlook is a little greyer. While we progressed ...