{"id":2241,"date":"2025-09-01T18:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/alarm-raised-as-private-capital-floods-into-insurance\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:58:34","slug":"alarm-raised-as-private-capital-floods-into-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/alarm-raised-as-private-capital-floods-into-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm raised as private capital floods into insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Wall Street, few propositions are as stark as this: you earn a floating coupon so long as a defined disaster does not strike; if it does, some of your principal is used to pay claims. That is the simple, disquieting bargain behind catastrophe bonds and reinsurance sidecars &#8211; insurance-linked investments that surged after a market \u201creset\u201d, delivering the strongest two-year run in their history and luring in hedge funds, private-equity platforms, pensions and family offices. In 2023, the Swiss Re Global Cat Bond Total Return Index returned 19.7%, followed by 17.29% in 2024. By mid-2024, market yields hovered around the 13% level, an unusual combination of high coupons and manageable losses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wall Street, few propositions are as stark as this: you earn a floating coupon so long as a defined disaster does not strike; if it does, some of your principal is used to pay claims. That is the simple, disquieting bargain behind catastrophe bonds and reinsurance sidecars &#8211; insurance-linked investments that surged after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[721,1365,1366,11,418,1364],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alarm","tag-capital","tag-floods","tag-insurance","tag-private","tag-raised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}