Moody's Investors Service said the rating outlook on the Bermuda market is stable reflecting insurers' and reinsurers' generally robust balance sheets, strong operating profits generated over the past eighteen months, and enhanced risk management practices.

The New York-based firm's new industry outlook also noted, however, that the positive considerations are tempered by the inherent volatility of catastrophe-exposed lines of business, currently softening market conditions, and low barriers to entry in this industry sector that thrives on opportunities generated by marketwide disruptions.

In assessing the Bermuda market's development and priorities, Moody's noted that most insurers and reinsurers have reported significantly strengthened earnings on the heels of large underwriting losses from the 2005 hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

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