8 September 2013Reinsurance

Speculating on cat losses is like gazing into a crystal ball

It is impossible to say how capital markets investors in reinsurance might react to heavy catastrophe losses, especially given that such products have not yet experienced severe losses and the fact that the structures of many insurance-linked securities (ILS) products have changed recently.

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