Artemis Live - Insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bonds (cat bonds), reinsurance

For our latest Artemis Live interview we wanted to understand how the industry loss from Hurricane Ida has been developing and explore the complexities in the reconstruction and recovery that could impact just how high the insurance and reinsurance market loss could rise.  Who better to do that with than executives from Property Claim Services (PCS), a division of Verisk, so we were joined by Tom...

Our latest Artemis Live video interview saw us exploring the importance of climate risk models in the management of portfolios of reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), with senior executives from Aeolus Capital Management.  Aeolus' Head of Research, Dr. Pete Dailey, and Partner, and Chief Analytics Officer Frank Fischer, joined us to discuss the importance of climate models in their w...

Recently we hosted a live webcast in association with Genpact, on the use of technology within the reinsurance space and the importance of data. The insightful discussion explored the industry’s current use of technology and ability to adopt new processes, with a view to what this might mean for the future of the reinsurance market as it looks to progress and innovate. Our panellists for the webca...

For our latest interview, we were joined by Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS to discuss the issue of cyber risk and ask the question, why isn't it a bigger exposure in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market?  For almost a decade, the subject of cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS), cyber catastrophe bonds and the ILS fund market as provider of cyber reinsurance, has been a topic of conversati...

We recently hosted a webcast in partnership with Vesttoo, where the discussion focused on innovative approaches to insurance and reinsurance linked investments.  Our expert panellists discussed opportunities for investors to access high frequency, low severity insurance asset classes.  Viewers heard how the market for insurance and reinsurance linked investments continues to develop, with new rout...

We were recently joined by Christian Mumenthaler, Chief Executive Officer of one of the world's largest reinsurance company's Swiss Re, who discussed the state of the market, his outlook, the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and what his priorities are for 2022 in this interview.  On reinsurance market pricing, Mumenthaler told us, "I’m really pleased that the industry overall has taken th...

At our recent virtual ILS Asia 2021 conference we held a panel discussion focused on accessing new and diversifying sources of risk from the Asia region. Much of the ILS market is still focused on catastrophe risks, being the pre-dominant component of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market. But increasingly there is appetite among investors for more, while insurers and reinsurers are keen to...

Paul Schultz, CEO of Aon Securities, joined us for our recent ILS Asia 2021 conference and gave a keynote speech on ILS market developments across the Asia Pacific region. Schultz explained that while Singapore is now an active hub for catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities (ILS) and with Hong Kong primed to issue its first deal this year as well, regional sponsor participation can help...

On the final day of our recent ILS Asia 2021 event the audience was treated to an insightful discussion on the Asian catastrophe bond and ILS market from Cory Anger of GC Securities. With Hong Kong now established as a regulated domicile for insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bonds, there could be several issuances out of the region by the end of 2021, according to Cory Anger. “Both...

At our recent insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference for the Asia region, Morton Lane, of consultancy Lane Financial LLC, gave a keynote speech that examined 20 years of cat bond market performance and asked whether investors got what they had expected from it. Morton Lane's keynote looked at whether the performance of catastrophe bonds was worth the risk assumed and concluded that indeed in...

This session from our recent insurance-linked securities conference for the Asia region featured William Ho, CEO of MS Amlin Asia Pacific, who joined us to discuss the reinsurance market in the region and his firms use of ILS capital. Ho explained the Asia Pacific reinsurance landscape and the rate environment, identifying opportunities and initiatives underway to expand coverage to greater number...

At our recent ILS Asia event we convened three experienced pension fund investors, from PGGM, Future Fund of Australia and the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), who discussed key and timely issues of consideration related to their allocations to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class. All of these pension investors have experience working with leading ILS investment managers a...

During our recent ILS Asia event we interviewed two experts from Securis Investment Partners about the importance of investor communications, especially in relation to Asian perils & climate risk. Yuko Hoshino, Co-head of Global Investor Relations and Paul Wilson, Head of Non-Life Analytics, both from Securis Investment Partners LLP, gave an overview of the Asian ILS investor base and explored...

At our recent ILS Asia 2021 event, a panel of experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS) professionals discussed investment management issues with a view to the Asian marketplace. In spite of the pandemic and the inability to travel, the panellists noted that through the use of technology it’s still possible to build relationships with prospective investors and overall, developments in the ILS...

This podcast episode features an interview with Timothy Yip, Executive Director at ILS Advisers, an insurance-linked securities focused advisory and investment management arm of HSZ Group. Yip joined us to discuss the investor landscape in Asia and how that is reflected in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space. There's a clear appetite for diversifying sources of return, as we see among the...

At our recent ILS Asia 2021 conference, Shevawn Barder, CEO of AM RE Syndicate gave an excellent keynote speech on opportunities for ILS funds and investors to partner with businesses like her own to access the returns of US specialty business. The keynote speech is then followed by a Q&A with Artemis editor Steve Evans, in which the subject was explored more deeply. Barder explained why the U...

Our recent ILS Asia 2021 conference featured a panel discussion where experts explored the emerging insurance-linked securities (ILS) platform in Hong Kong and asked what considerations there may be for sponsors of or investors in catastrophe bonds and other ILS. Thanks to the efforts of Singapore and more recently Hong Kong, there’s an exciting and growing opportunity for the insurance-linked sec...

This episode of our podcast features an interview with Simon Lam, Executive Director, General Business at the Hong Kong Insurance Authority, who joined our latest event, ILS Asia 2021 to discuss Hong Kong's plans for its new insurance-linked securities platform. Hong Kong already has an established insurance and reinsurance market, while its legislative preparations for ILS were completed at the b...

The catastrophe bond market is on-track to break multiple records after a particularly busy second-quarter of 2021. Activity in the catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) market accelerated again in the second-quarter of 2021, with the three-months seeing an incredible $8.5 billion of new risk capital come to market, according to the latest report and data from Artemis . Q2...

For our latest Artemis Live interview we wanted to dive into a hot topic, inflationary pressures, material prices and labour costs and how this could play into catastrophe claims for the insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry in 2021.  Inflation is big news currently, with some economists expecting a sustained period of price increases and inflationary pressures arou...

For our latest Artemis Live interview we were joined by two Jeff Waters and Ben Brookes from catastrophe risk modeller RMS, to discuss the latest update to the RMS North Atlantic hurricane model and how the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market should think about this evolution in modelling hurricane risk.  RMS has recently launched an updated version of its North Atlantic hurricane risk model,...

During a recent Artemis Live webcast, industry experts argued that utilizing technology will be critical in enabling the reinsurance and alternative capital markets, or ILS sector, to help hedge pandemic risk using parametric solutions. The event was sponsored by Vesttoo, a specialist in risk modeling and alternative risk transfer for the Life and P&C insurance markets, and which was represent...

For our latest Artemis Live interview we were joined by Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, to discuss the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market's appetite to invest in strike, riot & civil commotion (SRCC) or political violence related risks.  The discussion came about because of a recent piece of work undertaken by Tom and his team, in which they polled the insurance-linked securities (ILS) mar...

Interest in parametric risk transfer and insurance is on the rise as the immediacy and availability of data improves and new types of market participants enter the fray, suggesting growth is on the horizon, according to industry experts. We recently held an  Artemis Live webcast, titled The Power of Parametric Solutions for Climate Resilience, featuring senior leaders from across the weather risk...

James Vickers, Chairman of Willis Re International, part of the global reinsurance broking unit of Willis Towers Watson, joined us to discuss global reinsurance market conditions and opportunities.  In this interview, James Vickers discusses how Willis Re's reinsurance clients are finding market conditions in the context of some steady firming seen across recent renewal seasons.  We discussed glob...