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  • 95 percent of the total $8.5bn insured losses from last February's Chilean earthquake will be shouldered by the reinsurance market, according to a report by Aon Benfield.
  • Catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that the (re)insurance industry could lose up to $8bn as a result of the second Christchurch earthquake, a loss which would roughly equal the Chilean quake that was the most costly cat last year.
  • Billion dollar losses from New Zealand are again likely for the reinsurance community after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch, killing at least 65 people.
  • US insurer The Hartford's latest Foundation Re cat bond closed at $135mn, paying investors 500 basis points (bps) above Treasury Money market returns.
  • Serial ILS issuer Chubb Corp is launching its fourth East Lane Re cat bond, seeking $200mn of cover against Northeastern US wind and quake losses.
  • London-based investment manager Securis Investment Partners plans to launch a new fund on the main London Stock Exchange (LSE) in March.
  • 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.
  • Ratings agency Moody's upgraded several tranches of Swiss Re's embedded-value life securitisation Alps Capital II after the first-ranking notes were paid in full.
  • The dominance of non-indemnity covers in the cat bond market means that more disclosure is needed to determine their reinsurance value, ratings agency A.M. Best says in its 2011 outlook on the US property & casualty insurance sector.
  • Swiss Re has opened the ILS scoreboard in 2011 in spectacular style, with its biggest Successor offering to date.