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Trevor Bolt constructs the retrocession programme that has protected Hannover Re from the brunt of disaster losses this year. He tells Trading Risk why he believes the ILS market is constraining its own growth.
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Clariden Leu ILS manager Michael Stahel tells Trading Risk why the alternative market is set to gain a competitive edge against traditional reinsurers - helped along by innovation from asset managers.
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BMS broker Stefano Nicolini tells Trading Risk how ILWs - derivative instruments triggered by levels of insured industry losses from a catastrophe event - can steer reinsurers through many tight spots, from post-merger headaches to over-indulgence on catastrophe risk...
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Milliman actuary Steve Schreiber has been at the spearhead of many life insurance innovations. He shares his view of the resurgent life securitisation markets and expansion possibilities for longevity with Trading Risk...
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Elementum Capital's founding principal John DeCaro calls for more reinsurance discipline in cat bond marketing, and shares his morning routine...
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Tokio Millennium Re plays a vital role in facilitating many insurance-linked capital markets transactions. The firm's senior vice president, Kathleen Faries, tells Trading Risk how she views the convergence market...
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Reinsurer PartnerRe leverages its catastrophe and life underwriting expertise as an active ILS investor. Brian Tobben, head of PartnerRe's ILS unit, discusses his view of the convergence markets.
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Through the Princely Strategy, LGT Capital Management has been an investor in the ILS market since 2005 and manages $350mn in a multi-manager portfolio. The portfolio managers, Didier Noverraz and Michael Simmeth, share their thoughts...
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AXA Investment Managers allocates EUR76bn of funds across alternative asset classes. The firm's ILS manager, Christophe Fritsch, explains why the firm chooses (re)insurance risk...
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Reinsurance leviathan Munich Re uses its balance sheet to take cat risk as both assets and liabilities. Rupert Flatscher, head of the firm's Risk Trading Unit, discusses his views on trading risk...
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Swiss Re's head of non-life risk transformation, Martin Bisping, discusses ILS growth, transparency and a good night's sleep with Trading Risk...
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Trading Risk catches a few minutes with Morton Lane - a pioneer in the move to securitise insurance risk, having helped develop both the CBoT cat options and issuing the earliest cat bonds. He shares his thoughts on theconvergence landscape...