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5 January 2024Alternative Risk Transfer

Cat bonds at the 1.1: from would-be market complement to competitor

Cat bonds came off their year of record issuance to headline reports from the 1.1 reinsurance renewals, advancing from ‘complement’ to ‘competitor’ for traditional players at the upper levels of property cat towers, key reinsurance brokers have suggested.

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