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

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Cat bond market back to pre-crisis returns

15 February 2011

Cat bonds performed strongly in 2010, according to Swiss Re's basket of indices for the asset class, with the reinsurer hailing strong performance indicators as a sign the market has fully recovered from the financial crisis.

The Swiss Re Global Cat Bond Total Return Index - which takes both coupon income and secondary resale value to calculate returns for all nat-cat bonds in the market - showed an 11.29 percent return for 2010.

This was the fourth time in the...

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