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

In this episode we review some of the key facts related to catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance in the first-quarter of 2021. Catastrophe bond and related ILS issuance amounted to $4.63bn as at the end of Q1, making it the third time in the past four years that Q1 issuance has surpassed the $4bn mark. Although down on the record-breaking $5bn issued in the openin...

For our latest Artemis Live interview we wanted to take a deep-dive into into the recent severe winter weather and deep freeze event that affected a significant proportion of the United States in February, hitting Texas particularly hard.  Early estimates suggested the potential for the insurance and reinsurance market, including insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, to face losses of $15bn to...

This episode features a discussion exploring the use of technology within insurance and reinsurance markets, in particular how reinsurance outcomes can be improved for ceding companies with the use of tech.  This was a session from our Prospectus 2021 event, the new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Rein...

For our latest Artemis Live video interview we spoke with specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager Leadenhall Capital Partners' CEO Luca Albertini and CUO Jillian Williams, who gave us an update on their view on the ILS and reinsurance market and also explained more about environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities at the firm.  We began by discussing the state of the ma...

For our latest Artemis Live interview we spoke with James Poole, Co-founder and Managing Directory of AGILE Risk Partners, who explained the concept of Collateralised Facultative Reinsurance (CFR) to our viewers.  James and his business partners launched AGILE as a pure risk advisory, bringing broking expertise, and an understanding of insurer and reinsurer capital pressures together with technolo...

Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, gave a keynote speech titled "The Four Horsemen of 2021 (key reinsurance risks that won't go away)". This was a session from our Prospectus 2021 event, the new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020. Johansmeyer used the Four Horsemen to underlin...

This was another session from Prospectus 2021, the new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020. This panel discussion saw us joined by some real experts in their fields of catastrophe risk and meteorological perils, to discuss the issue of secondary perils and climate change r...

Chamath Palihapitiya and David Soloff, founders of new startup OTT Risk, joined us to discuss their ambitions of unlocking private capital to support the non-damage business interruption insurance market.  With the theme of our ILS NYC 2021 event being "defining the next-generation" of insurance-linked securities (ILS), the recent launch of a new tech start-up focused on the insurance sector named...

For this broadcast, three specialist reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused Partners from global law firm Mayer Brown joined us as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference.  Steve Rooney, Ricky Spitzer and Colin Scagell, all of who work on numerous insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance transactions and structures, shared their thoughts on the future...

Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson joined us as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference, providing an update on his important work at the intersection of climate science, capital, policy and risk. Rowan explained the importance of access to deep capital in financing for protection against climate risk and increasing climate resilience.  Having spoken...

Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, a Verisk business, joined us for a second interview during our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference, this time to discuss the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities market.  The discussion focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and what its continuation means for insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsu...

Michael Bennett, Head of Derivatives & Structured Finance at the World Bank Treasury kindly joined us for an interview as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference.  He shared his thoughts on the World Bank's work in disaster risk financing and the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures, such as catastrophe bonds, alongside traditional reinsurance, to help its member countries e...

Marcus Rivaldi, Managing Director, Analytics at specialist ILS and reinsurance investment manager Twelve Capital, joined us to explore environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference.  We spoke about ESG (environmental, social, governance) and what the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector needs...

For this interview, with Cory Anger, Managing Director and Liam Martens, Vice President, both from GC Securities, the capital markets division of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, we discussed the next generation of catastrophe bonds. The pair joined us as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference, to discuss where catastrophe bonds could gain broader market acceptance and uptake.  As well as ho...

This group discussion was held during our ILS NYC 2021 conference, to explore the expansion of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class to cover a broader range of perils. We welcomed: Yaniv Bertele, Co-Founder & CEO of Vesttoo Ltd.; Thibaut Adam, Managing Director, Citi; Kenny Durbin, Senior Vice President, Guy Carpenter; and Matt Beard, Managing Director, Guy Carpenter.  The panel j...

Michael Millette, Founder and Managing Partner of Hudson Structured Capital Management joined us for this interview as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual insurance-linked securities conference. The discussion focused on Michael's views on the forward-looking development of the insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as well as how capital use may change across insurance...

Michael Stahel, Partner and Portfolio Manager, LGT ILS Partners, joined us to explore insurance-linked securities allocation strategies, as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference. For this interview we discussed what a next-generation insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocation strategy could look like.  Michael explained how this has been approached at LGT ILS Partners in their collateralis...

Barney Schauble, Head of Labs at Nephila Advisors, part of insurance-linked securities (ILS) manager Nephila Capital, joined us for a fascinating discussion as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference.  The discussion focused on the opportunity side of the environmental, social and governance (or ESG) question for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market.  Schauble discussed the importance...

We were delighted to be given some insight into global reinsurance giant Swiss Re's plans for future insurance-linked securities (ILS) activities by Judy Klugman, Global Co-Head of ILS, and Ed Johnson, Head of ILS Sales EMEA & APAC, both from Swiss Re Capital Markets.  The pair joined us as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference, to discuss the role of the reinsurer in delivering next gen...

Niklaus Hilti, Head of insurance-linked securities (ILS) at investment manager Credit Suisse's Insurance Linked Strategies division joined us as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference.  Niklaus discussed his forward-looking, perhaps blue-sky view of what the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market could become over the next decade.  Catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance and other est...

Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, a Verisk business, joined us during our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference to discuss the important role of the industry-loss trigger in insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bonds.  He shared his thoughts on how use of the industry-loss trigger structure may evolve over the next few years in catastrophe bonds, ILS and reinsurance.  He also provided some outl...

This was the fifth session of Prospectus 2021, a new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020. Focusing on the capital and investments side of both reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS), the expert panellists discussed the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sec...

This was the fourth session of Prospectus 2021, a new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020.  The session focused on terms and conditions (T&Cs) and explored both the loosening during the soft market period, and the expectation of continued tightening as the market enter...

This was the third session of Prospectus 2021, a new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020.  Attendees were treated to an expert panel focused on what really matters for Chief Investment Officers (CIOs) going into 2021.  It’s no secret that interest rates have been dangerous...

This was the second session of Prospectus 2021, a new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020.  This session saw Dr. Jamie Rodney, Executive Director of ILS Analytics at ILS investment manager Twelve Capital, giving an in-depth and insightful keynote exploration of peak catast...