Archive for July, 2022

Tickets are still available for Artemis London 2022, our first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference in the City, which we’re holding on September 6th 2022, just before the industry heads to Monaco for the RVS.

The majority of insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers are interested in cyber re/insurance risk and are free from mandates prohibiting engagement, suggesting the ILS space is “quite ready to consume more cyber insurance risk,” according to Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS.

American International Group (AIG) has announced the return of Charlie Fry to its ranks, as the company hired him into the role of Executive Vice President, Reinsurance Purchasing and Risk Capital Optimization.

Nayms, a regulated Bermuda based marketplace for crypto insurance, has added a key hire with insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital raising experienced, appointing Nick Zagoreos as its Head of Capital Markets.

Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited, a specialty insurance and reinsurance firm launched by Richard Brindle, has announced a new strategic shift as it plans the launch of an MGU and a separation of this new underwriting and origination arm from its balance-sheet businesses.

Property catastrophe reinsurance rates-on-line in the United States are now back at their highest level since 2009, according to updated data from broker Guy Carpenter.

California’s wildfire season continues to bring challenges for the state’s residents, with the Oak Fire in Mariposa County currently threatening thousands of properties, resulting in evacuations and an emergency declaration.

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending July 24th 2022, 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 or get our email alerts for every article we publish.

With Florida’s property insurance market seemingly entering a new level of crisis, on the news that Demotech may downgrade a slew of carriers which caused a significant backlash from state officials, it’s remiss not to consider the impact on the reinsurance market, how that may further pressure those carriers and also the challenges this all […]

Government instigated performance tests for Australian superannuation funds, so pension and retirement investment houses, could potentially have an effect of making investing into asset classes like insurance-linked securities (ILS) at scale more challenging, research suggests.