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» Artemis ILS Asia 2017 post-conference report
An audience of 170+ attended our second ILS Asia conference at the Marina Bay Sands convention centre, Singapore in July 2017.

Speakers noted the need for robust modelling and use of innovative structures, alongside further educating the investor and sponsor community, to broaden the remit of ILS in Asia.
Download the report here.

» Q2 2017 Cat Bond Market Report - First double-digit year ahead, $10 billion imminent
Q2 saw a record $7 billion of risk capital issued from 29 new transactions, becoming the biggest quarter of catastrophe bond issuance on record and helping to drive the market to a new high.

The record $7 billion of Q2 2017 issuance has now put $10 billion firmly in sight for the year, a figure that will be reached by the middle of July. Download the report here.

» 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2017 Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season is now underway. Track the season as it develops on our dedicated page; with forecast information, storm by storm updates, tracking maps, satellite imagery and more.

» London Centre for Global Disaster Protection announced at G20 by PM May

» Alternus could write almost every Marsh property account: Glaser

» First blockchain settlement for cat bond completed by Solidum

» Multi-billion dollar electric grid risks need risk transfer: Swiss Re

» Nature Conservancy pilots insurance fund for coastal resilience

» New Paradigm parametric deals to list on TigerRisk X-gRm platform

» Swiss Re pioneers parametric typhoon business interruption cover

» “Little hope of a near-term bottoming” for reinsurance cycle: KBW

» Cyber loss could equal nat cat, worst case $120bn+, aggregation key: Lloyd’s

» Lloyd’s to allow capital to flow in more quickly after major loss

» Healthy pipeline of ILS deals expected in 2017: LGT ILS Partners
The LGT ILS portfolio management team discuss their thoughts on the markets prospects in 2017.

» Michael Hamer, Albourne Partners on standardised reporting in ILS
Hamer discusses the need for standardised reporting and the benefits it would offer ILS investors.

» ILS manager quality growing in importance: Espen Nordhus, Securis
Nordhus discussed a tough renewal period, saying that ILS manager quality is more important than ever before.

» The “horizontalization” of ILS to intensify in 2017 & beyond: JLTCM
In 2017 the ILS market will be defined by horizontalization, or the expansion of the ILS product offering, JLTCM said.

» Reinsurance price deterioration could persist into 2018: Moody’s
Moody’s said that it expects reinsurance pricing to decline by up to 5% in 2017 and possibly decline in 2018.