$7bn+ secondary trading dwarfs primary issuance in 2008
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$7bn+ secondary trading dwarfs primary issuance in 2008

12 February 2009
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Distress in the financial markets in 2008 caused secondary trading volumes to outstrip primary issuance more than twofold as credit risk seeped into the sector and de-leveraging hedge funds were forced to sell cat bonds.

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AnalysisCatastrophe bondsSecondary tradingFebruary 2009/1
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