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The secondary market for trading in catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities saw brisk activity throughout much of 2011. Of particular interest is the trading patterns and how the secondary market reacted to events which impacted these markets. We’ve written before about how catastrophe events and potential hurricanes have impacted secondary market confidence and thus trading […]

Just last week we published an interesting graph which shows how the approaching hurricane Irene affected the price of exposed secondary market catastrophe bonds. Pricing fluctuations in the face of disaster is just one of the effects that the secondary market experiences as a disaster approaches or in the aftermath, the other effect is fluctuations […]