Archive for October, 2016

Hurricane Matthew remains a major storm with 145mph winds as it barrels towards a potentially devastating strike on Haiti and Cuba. The Bahamas are next in its path and the risk of a U.S. landfall has risen, according to the forecast, with Florida and the Carolinas now in the forecast cone.

The cat bond market must continue to offer sponsors and investors new structures and risks in a bid to remain relevant and competitive, thinks Cory Anger, Global Head of ILS Structuring, GC Securities.

Sara Rejal has been promoted to a newly created role of Head of Liquid Alternatives, in the investment consultancy and advisory business of Willis Towers Watson, a role that will see her take on reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment consultancy responsibility.

Property Claim Services (PCS) has designated its first two catastrophe events under its PCS Turkey catastrophe loss aggregation and industry loss estimation service, with both events being terrorism insurance related.

Aon Securities has appointed Darren Bailey as Head of Capital Markets (Capital Markets Team – Aon Securities) in the firm’s London office, as it rebuilds its European-based insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused team in the wake of two departures.

Our latest report on activity in the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has now been published. The report, ‘Q3 2016 Catastrophe Bond & ILS Market Report – Weather risk returns, private deals, market growth‘, analyses a third-quarter featuring $1.087 billion of issuance.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 2nd October 2016, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates.