The Bermuda Stock Exchange aims to attract more listings of catastrophe bonds and other insurance-linked securities, taking market share away from its biggest rival, the Cayman Islands bourse, its Chief Executive said on Monday.

The global-reinsurance market ended 2011 with the about the same amount of capital it started the year with, despite significant catastrophe events.

Three subjects appeared to be most prominent in discussions between executives and risk managers in Philadelphia at this years Risk and Insurance Management Society meeting: price, business interruption and cyber risk.

Independent insurance agents and brokers from around the country will descend upon Washington D.C. this week to talk politics and insurance during the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Americas annual legislative conference and convention.