Insurance Linked Securities Interviews

There is a clear opportunity for ILS funds and investors to partner with expert originators and underwriters to access the returns of US specialty business, according to AM RE Syndicate Inc. Chief Executive Officer Shevawn Barder.

For our latest Artemis Live video interview we wanted to explore inflationary trends and their potential to impact on the catastrophe claims process, as well as throw up some unexpected results when losses happen. So we were joined by Mike Fulton, President of Xactware and Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, to discuss inflationary pressures and […]

For our latest Artemis Live interview we were joined by Jeff Waters and Ben Brookes from catastrophe risk modeller RMS, to discuss the latest update to the RMS North Atlantic hurricane model and how the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market should think about this evolution in modelling hurricane risk.

As insurers and reinsurers continue to advance their data analytics capabilities, parametric structures will increasingly be leveraged for more traditional classes of business, according to James Harrison, UKI Head of Insurance at global data and analytics firm, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B).

Due to a shift away from commoditisation in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, diversity and innovation are becoming essential, which has increased the need for a higher level of board expertise, according to Ocorian Client Director Sherman Taylor in a recent interview with Artemis.

For our latest Artemis Live interview we were joined by Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, to discuss the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market’s appetite to invest in strike, riot & civil commotion (SRCC) or political violence related reinsurance risks.

With the entry of multiple new domiciles to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) arena in recent years, the most important feature of this is the plurality of choice it makes available to sponsors, rather than the chance of subsidies being made available, Mathieu Halm, Head of Retrocession and Strategy at CCR Re explained.

Ernie Zayicek, Chief Operating Officer at AM RE Syndicate Inc., believes that the attritional, low severity types of risks offered by AM RE will become increasingly attractive to insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors over the coming years.

Our latest Artemis Live video interview features James Vickers, Chairman of Willis Re International, part of the global reinsurance broking unit of Willis Towers Watson, who joined us to discuss reinsurance market performance and capital trends.

James Vickers, Chair of Willis Re International, has said that insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors have showed increasing maturity at recent reinsurance renewals, as demand proved strong at 4/1.