Insurance Linked Securities Interviews

Cyber risk modelling and data analytics will help to build a better understanding of cyber exposures across the insurance and reinsurance industry, which in time will bridge the gap to the ILS investor base on cyber risk, according to CyberCube’s Brittany Baker.

Working with third-party capital using insurance-linked securities (ILS) calls for a partnership approach and alignment of interests, AXIS Capital executives told Artemis in a recent video interview.

Compared to the “great reload” after the significant impacts and losses associated with the 2017 hurricane season, after the 2021 losses investors have been more curious about what insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers are doing in response, according to Lorenzo Volpi, Managing Partner at Leadenhall Capital Partners.

In the second in a series of sponsor showcase video interviews for the upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2022 conference (held April 22nd in New York City), we welcomed Thomas Nuth, the Vice President of Marketing at DeNexus, one of our Bronze sponsors for the conference.

Clarien Investments Limited (CIL), the asset management arm of Clarien Bank, one of Bermuda’s largest independent integrated financial services firms, has launched its first insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund and is tapping the expertise of established ILS managers by making it a fund-of-funds strategy.

In the first of a series of sponsor showcase video interviews for the upcoming Artemis ILS NYC 2022 conference (held April 22nd in New York City), we welcomed Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, who joined us to talk all things political violence, unrest and cyber risk.

Joel Smith, Associate Partner at Synpulse, a global management consulting firm, has argued that digitizing processes and information exchange represents an important first step towards improved collaboration for insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers.

Swiss Re continued to expand its alternative reinsurance capital assets under management across the range of insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures it manages for 2022, with notable successes in growing sidecar commitments for its PGGM-backed vehicle and its multi-investor Sector Re sidecar.

Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re developed its 1863 insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund platform to be “investor friendly” and has attempted to address some of the “structural inefficiencies” often seen in ILS products, according to Martin Bisping, CEO of the reinsurers’ Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Investment Management Ltd (SRILIM) unit.

Secondary perils require a particular level of focus, investment and effort, when it comes to modelling risks of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance portfolios, Aeolus Capital Management executives told us recently.