4 April 2014Alternative Risk Transfer

Tokio cat bond will encourage Japanese issuers

The recently closed $245 million catastrophe bond issued by Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance could prompt other big Japanese insurers to also tap the insurance linked securities (ILS) markets as an alternative means of risk transfer.

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