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2011 has been another stop-start year for the cat bond market as it navigated several major obstacles but sales are now accelerating strongly into 2012.
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Is the ILS investor base becoming too top-heavy?
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Proposed SEC securitisation reforms threaten to wrap more red tape around the ILS market. Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Stephen Rooney lays out the case for ILS to be set apart
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There was a lot of lively debate to match the blustery October weather at this year's Trading Risk New York conference, but a speech from Catlin retro buyer Mark van Zanden sparked one interesting exchange with Fermat Capital founder John Seo over whether ILS investors are asking too much to take on catastrophe risk.
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Cat bond premiums are far higher than they should be when analysed using investment theory models that predict low risk, diversifying assets such as ILS should earn correspondingly low returns...
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ILS fund structures are coming under strain as managers direct more of their portfolios into illiquid collateralised reinsurance instruments, Albourne Partners analyst and ILS investment adviser Michael Hamer said at the Trading Risk New York conference.
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New Zealand earthquake losses may have prompted some traditional reinsurers to question the value of lower-paying international risk this year, but the ILS market still seems intent on adding more breadth.
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RMS RiskMarkets director Ben Brookes examines the impact of RMS US Hurricane Model Version 11 on ILS pricing
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2011 cat losses shook the ILW market. In our regular quarterly review of the sector, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham looks at the longer-term effects...
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With much of the international (re)insurance market's focus trained on pricing of US and Asia Pacific property cat programmes, the retro market's activities at the mid-year renewals went broadly under the radar.
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Trading Risk explores how ILS fund managers are handling the legal and reputational risks of dicing up their funds to splice out catastrophe losses
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In a similar reaction to that of the traditional markets at the busy June and July renewal season, the impact of the model changes in the convergence sector appears to have been muted.
