Insurance
Swiss Re targets ILS business line expansion: Klugman & Johnson, ILS NYC 2021
Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re is working towards transferring a much broader range of risks to the capital markets in future, as it looks to expand its insurance-linked securities (ILS) activities beyond pure natural catastrophe risks to a more capital management approach, according to Judy Klugman and Ed Johnson, speaking at our ILS NYC 2021…
Read MoreTremor to “supercharge” reinsurance placement with Panorama launch
Tremor Technologies, the insurtech offering a technology-based programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk transfer marketplace, has launched a next-generation update to its trading platform software, as it looks to “supercharge” reinsurance placement with the Panorama release. Tremor is the only programmatic marketplace technology provider to gain real traction and place syndicated risk transfer and reinsurance deals…
Read MoreUS commercial property insurance rates decelerate in Q4: Marsh
Robust commercial property insurance price rises continued around the globe, but broking giant Marsh has warned that the fourth-quarter of 2020 saw the US property insurance market begin to decelerate, with signs that pricing may be starting to plateau. Catastrophe exposed and loss impacted property insurance accounts continued to see some of the largest rate…
Read MoreStrategic Risk Solutions launches Guernsey office, hires Child from Artex
Strategic Risk Solutions, Inc., a provider of insurance, reinsurance and captive management and consulting services, has announced the launch of an office in Guernsey as it looks to expand its insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) activities in Europe. In opening in Guernsey, Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has announced the hiring of Peter Child, who…
Read MoreILS fulfils original purpose, should now target top risks: Hilti, ILS NYC 2021
Niklaus Hilti, Head of insurance-linked securities (ILS) at Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies, has commended the success and growth of the asset class over the past decade, but warns that in order to maintain this positive momentum it will need to address the world’s largest risks. During the second session of the fifth annual Artemis…
Read MoreLongevity swap pricing to remain attractive in 2021: WTW
Longevity swap pricing is expected to remain attractive through the coming year, as reinsurance capital to support large pension risk transfer deals remains abundant and slower mortality improvements feed into reinsurance pricing, according to Willis Towers Watson (WTW). After a busy year in 2020, when the market for longevity swaps and longevity risk transfer hit…
Read MoreBest of Artemis, week ending 7th February 2021
Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 7th February 2021, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm,…
Read MoreSwiss Re’s alternative capital assets under management reach $2.8bn
Global reinsurance firm Swiss Re has increased the alternative reinsurance capital assets under management in a range of insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures to $2.8 billion, with the recently launched 1863 Fund one area of the business to benefit. Swiss Re has been managing assets in its collateralised reinsurance sidecar Sector Re since 2007, with the…
Read MoreWe’re at the start of an industry-loss trigger adoption wave: Johansmeyer at ILS NYC 2021
It’s just a matter of time before the use of industry loss triggers for risk transfer transactions broadens and is more widely used, which in turn will unlock more diversifying risk into certain sub-sectors of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space, according to Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS. The fifth annual Artemis ILS NYC conference kicked…
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