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Catastrophe (CAT) Bond Fund Analysis

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The growing unpredictability in the financial market increases the demand for other investment opportunities which are not correlated with the various factor of overall market&period; Some of these securities are tied to industry losses&comma; which means an investor has to understand how insurers write their own policies&comma; what kinds of houses are covered&comma; and where they are&period; This is not impossible to do&comma; but it requires highly specialized skill&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The alternate investment could be addressed by Issuing of Cat Bond Fund in capital market however&semi; it would be difficult to predict the response of retails investors in terms of investing in World’s first Cat bonds whose performance is reliant on natural risks&period; Nonetheless&comma; catastrophe bonds do not carry mutual relationship with macroeconomic factors&comma; which is rarely done in the world of investment&period; This unique feature lets them to carry costly diversification quality to collection of more long-established beneficial classes and carries particular application in doubtful financial surroundings where the investors may want to save themselves from market services&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">One of the characteristics of catastrophe bonds that attract the investing companies is that its poor performance is likely to be self-correcting&period; If a natural disaster takes place&comma; a number of reasons are provided to increase the quality of insurance which provides the investors to earn some or their losses in a small period of time&period; These characteristics can lead to a rapid increase in the demand for insurance<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Even though&comma; the frequencies of Catastrophe events are rare&comma; but investor will analyze the performance of these bonds in best case&comma; most likely and worst case scenario based on the various factors such as portfolio diversification&comma; premium&comma; coupon&comma; default risk&comma; rating&comma; maturity period&period;<br &sol;>Unlikely like Capital market securities&comma; credit risk doesn’t has any relation or impact on Cat bonds&comma; because <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">1&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; Principal of investor is secured by a third-party trust agreement between the engaged parties&semi; sponsor&comma; SPV&comma; investor&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">2&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; The reinsurer principal amount will be only utilized by sponsor if the Catastrophe occurred and the financial losses greater than the highest define value&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">&lbrack;large&rsqb;Capital and Money markets are the sources of investment for public investors&comma; but these markets are highly volatile as their rate of return has direct relation with the macroeconomics variable such as Interest rates&period; On the contrary&comma; Cat Bonds comparatively offering high yields irrespective of financial market performance&period;Cat bonds provide the opportunity of portfolio diversification that couldn’t be possible by restricting investment within the financial market&period; Furthermore&comma; each type of Cat Bond is linked with different Catastrophe&comma; so the investor can design Insurance Link Securities portfolio in a way to minimize the risks with minimal impact on returns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Cat Bonds are rated as BB by huge rating agencies Standard &amp&semi; Poor’s&comma; Moody’s and Fitch&period; As per the assigned rating these bonds will meet the obligation with the minimum probability of non-payment and in terms of percentage the default rate is 8&period;82&percnt; out of 100&percnt;&period; The default risk of Cat Bonds is 0&period;8 and sponsors are concerned about it as the other securities such as corporate Bond rated under the same system are rated higher&period; It is assumed that rating agencies are considering the perils rather than forecasting the monetary value of losses&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Time value of money plays important role in decision making of investors&period; In case of Cat Bonds the maturity period is between 3 to 5 years period which means investors will receive the coupons from SPV during this time period and will get principal amount from SPV on maturity of these bonds&period;&nbsp&semi; In contrast&comma; money market has maturity period of 12 months with low default risk and capital market has maturity of 5 plus years and carrying high risk&period; Weber has rightly identified that Bank Leu’s Cat Bond Fund would be attractive investment for the public investors&comma; because it’s high returns&comma; average maturity period and no relation with financial market&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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