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Guernsey Finance, a joint government and industry initiative that promotes and connects the island as an international finance centre, has named Aon’s Paul Sykes as its new Chairman.

Polo Insurance Managers (PIM), an independent, licensed insurance manager within the PoloWorks group, has launched Clockwork Re, a newly established Category 4 Commercial General Reinsurer backed by third-party capital and with a collateralised business remit, based in Guernsey. 

Independent, licensed insurance manager, Polo Insurance Managers (PIM), offers optionality and a unique proposition, providing independent professional management services to ILS, Commercial and Captive clients, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Elliott told Artemis at this year’s RVS in Monte Carlo.

Eric Andersen, President of Aon plc, spoke at an event at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous hosted by Guernsey Finance yesterday and explained that the brokers’ repositioning in reinsurance and risk transfer, under Risk Capital, has enabled it to better respond to the global request for capital and deliver on risk transfer innovation.

In spite of the unprecedented impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on sectors of all shapes and sizes, when it comes to servicing the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector during this challenging time, Guernsey did not miss a beat.

The Channel Island of Guernsey continues to push innovation for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, as it seeks to provide new options that meet the needs of those seeking risk transfer, those managing the risks and the end-investors, by the enactment of flexible legislation.

Guernsey has launched a new hybrid insurance-linked securities (ILS) vehicle, an all-in-one structure that can act as both re/insurer and ILS fund, which aims to make ILS fund managers operational lives easier.

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance activity in the island domicile of Guernsey has accelerated in 2018, with more than double the number of ILS structures established in 2018 so far compared to the whole of last year.

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market continues to expand the need for new structures and increased efficiency is growing across the sector, a trend that has seen the island domicile of Guernsey push for the development of a more transparent vehicle for investors that supports “true convergence” in ILS.

The island domicile of Guernsey has experienced higher insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance activity in 2018 so far, compared to the prior year, as use of its protected cell company (PCC) structure continued to increase and now aims to innovate to drive further market growth.