ILS Bermuda

As the insurance-linked securities (ILS) industry meets in Bermuda over the next few days at the 2025 edition of the ILS Bermuda Convergence event, the organisers believe that the island is “uniquely positioned to host next-generation risk financing solutions” with its deep connectivity between reinsurance and ILS capital markets.

Welcoming attendees to ILS Bermuda’s 2024 Convergence event today, Jo Stanton, Chair of ILS Bermuda and Head of Finance at insurance-linked securities (ILS) investment manager Tangency Capital explained that with hurricane Milton heading for Florida it highlights the importance of collaborations with science to drive the understanding of risk and innovation.

ILS Bermuda Ltd., the group that promotes economic development through the growth of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative risk transfer in Bermuda, has announced the keynote speaker for its Convergence 2024 networking event later this year.

While there are many ways to generate alpha for your investors in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector, it remains critical to manage investor expectations and avoid delivering unwanted surprises, speakers at Convergence 2023 in Bermuda said last week.

Speaking at the Convergence 2023 event in Bermuda yesterday, John Seo, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Fermat Capital Management, explained that there is significant investor interest in insurance-linked securities (ILS) right now, but when it comes to allocating, capital is slower moving these days.

At the Convergence 2023 conference in Bermuda today, speakers from insurance-linked securities (ILS) managers explained that the market remains smaller than is really desired and there is a need to continue efforts to make it more scalable, to meet the needs of larger investors.

Right now, there is an opportunity for institutional investors to harvest “the most pronounced risk-adjusted returns” from allocations to insurance-linked securities (ILS), according to Jo Stanton, Chair of ILS Bermuda and Head of Finance at Tangency Capital, speaking this morning at Convergence 2023.

ILS Bermuda, an organisation that promotes Bermudian economic development through growth of the reinsurance convergence and insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector on the island, has named two industry leaders to key roles, as its leadership adjusts.

As AXA XL continues to support and develop the Ocean Risk Index, Andrew MacFarlane, Managing Director and Head of Pricing & Analytics for London & Bermuda, Reinsurance, explores the thinking behind the initiative and more specifically its use as a risk transfer tool, including the potential for a catastrophe bond type structure linked to resilience […]

AXA XL, the global specialty insurance and reinsurance unit of the AXA Group, continues to work on initiatives related to climate risk and our oceans, with one area of work being pursued an Ocean Risk Index that could be used for risk transfer.