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  • New protectionist regulations in Brazil that threaten to disrupt the progress made by international reinsurers have sparked howls of protest from trade groups
  • The European Union has declared that (re)insurers are well capitalised and broadly prepared for Solvency II, but the new regulator brought in to chaperone the transition is warning against complacency
  • Price indications on cat bonds fell in March, underlining fears in the insurance-linked securities sector that a portion of the $1.4bn outstanding capacity exposed to Japanese earthquake risk could be triggered
  • Munich Re placed $100mn of US and European wind cover in the cat bond market just days after the 11 March Japanese earthquake and tsunami threw the (re)insurance markets into turmoil
  • Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield traded over $100mn of Japanese earthquake industry loss warranties (ILW) shortly after the 11 March catastrophe, sister publication Trading Risk has learned
  • Cedants to around $1.4bn of outstanding Japan earthquake-exposed cat bonds face an agonising wait to discover if coverage is available, as risk modellers calculate the parametric values that trigger the majority of the notes
  • Analysts and industry commentators typically turn to history when trying to evaluate what kind of an impact a catastrophe event will have on market dynamics
  • Berkshire Hathaway's stock lost $6.3bn in value in the week following the Japan earthquake - before trading up later in March
  • While (re)insurers are slowly getting to grips with the scale of property losses from the Japan earthquake, the wildcat element is contingent business interruption (CBI) cover
  • Lloyd's is unlikely to declare officially a loss estimate for Japan until May at the earliest but that has not stopped the speculation as to what the market's ultimate net loss will be from the disaster