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Aon Benfield Securities reported that the catastrophe bond market reached a record $20.3 billion last year. The Insurance Linked Securities Fourth Quarter 2013 Update, released this week by the investment banking division of the global reinsurance i...

A catastrophe bond with providing coverage for Australian perils has been placed in Bermuda. Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, announced it had underwritten a...

Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer Argo Group has set up several new vehicles to boost its capacity. The firm has created Harambee Re to cover Island property portfolios underwritten by Bermuda-based Argo Re and Colony Speciality after setting up a ...

Another sizeable catastrophe bond has been listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange, underscoring the Island’s leading position as a global centre for the insurance-related securities. The $500 million of Series 2013-1 notes issued by Bermuda-domiciled s...

LONDON (Reuters) — The scope and scale of superstorm Sandy is not enough to trigger losses for catastrophe bond investors, and won’t deter new issuance, Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA) said in a report. Based on current estimations from disa...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Investors who have put their money into specialist financial bonds which cover insurance companies from huge natural disasters are unlikely to be hit with big losses from monster storm Sandy even though it is one of the biggest e...