Insurance Linked Securities Interviews

Investor interest in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class is resurging, as 2023’s strong returns and improvements to structures peak interest across institutional markets, but allocators warn they are prepared to downsize commitments to protect the market when necessary, attendees at our ILS NYC 2024 conference heard in New York on February 9th.

More than 400 attendees joined us in New York for our seventh conference in the city on Friday 9th February and while those at  ILS NYC 2024 heard of a determination to sustain the improved market environment from industry experts, end-investors said that more than one year of evidence is required.

Hannover Re placed its K-Cessions quota share sidecar at US $757 million in size for 2024, shrinking the structure by 9% over the prior year. In an interview, Henning Ludolphs explained that despite some changes, the company has sufficient retrocession to take advantage of the hard reinsurance market environment this year.

The successful issuance of the first full cyber catastrophe bonds in late 2023 was a watershed moment and the role of risk models in helping insurance-linked securities investors get up to speed on what is still a relatively new peril to the ILS sector was key, executives at Moody’s RMS told us in an Artemis […]

Despite some obvious limitations which can be overcome, 2023 will be remembered as the year when cyber insurance-linked securities (ILS) became a reality, with further developments expected in the year ahead, according to Jose Seara and George Mawdsley of DeNexus.

A record breaking year for the catastrophe bond and related insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and continued momentum in early 2024 is having a positive influence on the wider ILS market, according to Brad Adderley, Bermuda Managing Partner, Appleby.

This video features a keynote speech and Q&A with Jorge Familiar, Vice President and Treasurer, of the World Bank Group from our Artemis London 2023 conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

This video features an expert panel discussing both catastrophe bond and private insurance-linked securities (ILS) market trends from our Artemis London 2023 conference, that was held in London on September 5th 2023.

Taking into account the needs of insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors was a critical component of the work to get the industry’s first cyber catastrophe bond to market, and it was important to ensure the sponsor AXIS Capital’s coverage needs were also met, Kyle Freeman told Artemis in an interview.

New technologies can serve as a bridge between the re/insurance industry and the world’s most vulnerable, and alongside the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and innovative solutions such as parametrics, can help to close the global protection gap, according to the Insurance Development Forum (IDF).