Insurance Insider ILS Awards 2025
25 June 2025 | Hilton Bankside, London
Insurance Insider ILS Awards 2025
25 June 2025 | Hilton Bankside, London
The Insurance Insider ILS Awards are back for 2025.
On 25 June, we will be taking the ILS Awards to the Hilton Bankside in London to celebrate the (re)insurance convergence industry and reflect on the outstanding contributions and achievements from the previous year.
This is your chance to nominate individuals and companies whose work deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated by the ILS community.
The submission deadline is Thursday 6 March. View the categories below and submit your entries.
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Key dates for 2025
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Thursday, 25 June 2025
2025 Categories
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Open to investment banks, capital markets divisions within broking houses or (re)insurance companies that have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the convergence sector. Winners will demonstrate consistent management of ILS transactions and/or the successful launch of new trading risk technology, or a newcomer to the market that has enriched the sector through its involvement.
Judges will be interested in detail from relevant transactions, and evidence of the nominee’s impact or innovation within the market. -
This award will highlight an elemental risk transfer bond which either breaks boundaries in elemental risk transfer or cements the foundations of a core bond.
The winner will be an efficiently structured, well-priced and successfully executed bond, with the recipient either the individual or team that structured the bond. -
This award highlights reinsurance or ILS transactions that cover risk (whether peril, region or cedant grouping) that was previously uninsured or not highly insured. The winning transaction will be able to show significant participation from ILS markets and demonstrate a benefit to the cedant in meeting their need for protection.
Judges will be particularly interested in the level of innovation and uniqueness of the transaction while insuring a risk which has not previously been well covered. -
Candidates for this award will be from any sector within the convergence market, whose specific initiative has significantly aided the development and success of the business and/or transaction. The winner of this category will be a team who can demonstrate innovation and has made a positive contribution to improving the way that (re)insurance risk is transferred in the past year. Judges will be looking for evidence of the initiative’s impact on the wider market, as well as its effectiveness.
Please note that technology focused solutions can enter Best Digital Solution or Modelling Initiative of the Year. -
Candidates will be institutions or investment teams that have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the ILS investor community in the previous year. The winner will have demonstrated a continued, deep commitment to the ILS sector alongside strong financial results, success in attracting investors to the sector and an innovative or pioneering approach in sourcing risk.
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Submissions will be welcomed for a non-elemental risk transfer bond – including life and longevity securitisations, swaps, casualty ILS and cyber risk bonds – which either breaks boundaries in non-elemental risk transfer or cements the foundations of a core transaction.
The winner will be an efficiently structured, well priced, and successfully executed bond, with the recipient either the individual or team that structured the bond. -
This award recognises (re)insurers that have either demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the convergence sector through consistent ILS issuance and/or adoption of new trading risk technology, or a newcomer to the market that has researched the sector and sponsored an innovative deal.
Judges will be particularly interested in transactions with strong ILS backing, evidence of how the nominee has integrated new risk products into the ILS market, and the efficiency of these efforts. -
This category will recognise professional advisers to the convergence sector specialising in reinsurance services – including actuarial services, accounting and banking services and risk transformers among other facilitators of insurance-linked transactions.
The winner will be able to demonstrate that they have helped smooth the path of innovative ILS transactions and provided market-leading services that help ILS market participants to lift their performance. -
Candidates will be an individual, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2024, and working in a non-underwriting role or supporting underwriting functions as an ILS manager, sourcing and/or analysing risk. Although young, the winner would already have made a significant contribution to the sector, clearly demonstrating a solid contribution to the future of the convergence market. Candidates must be nominated or supported by their departmental manager with a testimonial or supporting statement.
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This award aims to recognise the overall best single ILS fund of 2024, taking account of factors such as performance against similar strategies, AuM growth both organic and through inflows, innovations in strategy and/ or investment process, and pioneering use of technology. The winner will be able to demonstrate excellence in having taken steps with the aim of outpacing the competition, as well as success in the outcomes.
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With end-investors placing high priority on timely, accurate communications about fund performance and valuations, this award aims to honour initiatives that provide best-in-class investor-facing information and communication approaches.
The winner will demonstrate originality and ingenuity in developing timely, accessible methods for keeping investors appraised of fund developments, investment approaches, loss impacts, performance updates and returns information either via a product or a project. -
This award is open to law firms of all sizes providing legal services and advice to the ILS sector and wider market. The winner will be a law firm driving success through appropriate advice and representation for its clients across the sector. The law firm could be speciality in its practice or have specific practices areas for the sector.
Judges will be looking for value for money, demonstrable success from advice, impact cases and testimonial evidence. -
This award recognises the work of a modelling firm that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate accuracy of the models developed, client service levels, and/or successful innovations in the science of risk modelling.
Demonstrable evidence of a modeller’s response to an event and its subsequent service to clients will be considered, with a focus on where the firm has gone above and beyond typical expectations to distinguish itself in this field. -
This award is open to any organisation able to demonstrate the successful application of effective new technologies to the ILS market. It is open to insurance industry incumbents as well as pure InsurTech businesses.
The focus for candidates should be on demonstrating the successful launch of a product or service that transfers and/or distributes (re)insurance risk in more effective, innovative, and revolutionary ways.
Judges will be particularly interested in the level of originality, efficiency and scale of ambition shown by the entry as well as evidence of its acceptance by the investor community and/or successful collaboration with the existing traditional (re)insurance industry. As well as innovation, judges will also be looking for tangible and effective measurement of success within the context of profitable growth. -
This award is open to women in any role that serves the ILS market and who have made a valuable business contribution by pioneering or driving through change. This could be related to a project, product, task or process.
The judges are looking for individuals who have had a lead or played a key role in either identifying and defining a challenge and/or delivering a change project. -
This category will recognise innovative or challenging transactions that have made a particularly strong impact on the market for example this may include a private ILS transaction, sidecar or other transactions, excluding cat bond issuance.
Judges will consider the sophistication and complexity of the work and the impact of the innovation, as well as contextual challenges in execution. The deal may also not be the most difficult or challenging but could be straightforward yet timely and successful. -
This award recognises the pivotal role of end-investors within the convergence community and highlights the immense contribution that their expertise as allocators brings to the ILS sector.
This winner is selected by our editorial team and cannot be entered. -
The editorial tribunal award this honour to a person who they believe has distinguished themselves whilst making the highest contribution to the industry over the course of their working life. The winner is an individual working in – or providing services to – the UK markets through a career that has spanned at least 20 years.
This winner is selected by our editorial team and cannot be entered.
Andre is a successful entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the global (re)insurance industry.
Andre is currently the Chairman of Las Olas Holdings Ltd., H2 Group Ltd. and Janousek & Stampfli Rowing Boats Ltd., investing in start- ups and entrepreneurs embracing and commercializing disruption.
Craig Hupper retired from New York-based TransRe group at year-end 2023. He was most recently Senior Vice President and Managing Director and head of Sustainability and Resilience there. Craig joined TransRe in 1998 and served in underwriting and ceded retrocession roles before establishing the Risk Management, Capital Partners and Sustainability and Resilience teams.
Des Potter joined Lloyd’s in March 2022 as Special Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer, Burkhard Keese, focusing on enhancing access for institutional investors to the Lloyd’s market.
Des has recently been appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director for Howden Capital Markets & Advisory.
Jillian Williams has 30 years experience within the re/insurance and ILS industry, the last 15 years was at Leadenhall Capital Partners. She was one of the founding employees at Leadenhall Capital Partners. Jillian worked as Chief Underwriting Officer and Head of ESG at Leadenhall Capital Partners.
Jutta has held executive positions in companies like HDI, Hannover Re, Converium, Winterthur Insurance, Zurich Insurance Group and Allianz. Her responsibilities spanned from claims to underwriting but also included the placement of reinsurance. Before founding her own consulting and coaching firm in late 2020, she was part of the ILS team at Schroder Secquaero.
Nicky is a Partner in McGill & Partners’ Treaty Reinsurance team focusing on delivering ILS solutions across the full value chain and supporting our retro and reinsurance teams.
Nicky worked in senior reinsurance broking roles in London for Aon and Alexander Howden for 25+ years before transitioning to the ILS sector in 2013.
Steve set up the Tullett Prebon ILS desk in September 2008 and has traded with over 50 ILS counterparties throughout the world, typically based in Europe, Bermuda and the USA. Prior to joining Tullett Prebon, Steve was a main board Director of HSBC Insurance Brokers Ltd, with overall responsibility for Business Development across all lines.
