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Munich Re forecasts $5bn cat bond issuance in 2010

8 January 2010

Munich Re expects the volume of new cat bond issuance in 2010 to be in the region of $5bn while the required spread is expected to fall by some 50 basis points up to the middle of the year.

Rupert Flatscher, head of the German reinsurer's trading risk unit, said interest from new investors as well as the fact that the $4.5bn in bonds which are due to expire this year will need to be reinvested had boosted the estimation...

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