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This bond market is providing double-digit returns

Investors have seen returns as high as 16% from one class of debt instrument.

As bond markets everywhere get battered by a cocktail of higher interest rates, deficit angst and hawkish central bankers, one class of debt instrument is handing creditors double-digit returns: catastrophe bonds.

Investors in the $40 billion market for so-called cat bonds have literally been sit

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