Insight and Intelligence on (Re)insurance Convergence with the Capital Markets

23 February 2012

$5bn+ year forecast for hardening ILS market

19 January 2012

Cat bond brokers are expecting 2012 sales to reach at least $5bn as interest in buying alternative reinsurance solutions grows amid a hardening property catastrophe market.

Aon Benfield Securities president Paul Schultz predicted an upper range of $6bn of new issuance for 2012, saying that collateralised markets had proved very competitive through the second half of 2011.

"They stepped up and provided a lot of complementary capacity and were helpful in keeping the overall markets stable."

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