risk linked securities

Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform, which allows investors to buy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ contracts based on stated outcomes for specific indicators, is currently seeing temperature contracts as the most frequently traded on the platform, according to the firm’s founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy.

Following the launch of Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx platform, which allows investors to buy ‘yes’ or ‘no’ contracts based on stated outcomes for specific indicators, Artemis spoke to Patrick Brown, Head of Climate Analytics at the firm, about how these contracts allow investors to access risk-linked returns, as well as some of the key advantages they […]

Last week the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) held its annual Insurance-and-Risk-Linked Securities (IRLS) conference in New York. The annual event is one of the only conferences purely focused on the so-called convergence areas of reinsurance, covering ILS, catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance instruments such as sidecars, alternative reinsurance capital and reinsurance-linked investments.

Swiss based boutique finance and investment house with a focus on insurance and risk linked securitization Secquaero Advisors Ltd. has been featured in a number of articles in the German press in the last week or so. The articles demonstrate the increasing interest in insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond investment opportunities around the world, as […]

The recently closed Embarcadero Re Ltd. catastrophe bond, which saw the California Earthquake Authority transfer $150m of earthquake risk directly to the capital markets through their own SPV, shows that cat bond coverage can be comparable (and even cheaper) than the equivalent reinsurance coverage.