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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...
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In February, SCOR ended the six-month Lehman Brothers-induced ILS drought with its $200mn Atlas V cat bond, laying pointers for the future development of the class. The firm's head of ILS and alternative retrocession, Augustin Gas, shares his vision of the ILS market with Trading Risk...
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Industry rainmaker John Seo opines on the delicate relationship between cat bond investors and sponsors and argues that collaboration will help drive overall growth...
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Newly-merged broker Aon Benfield is set to be a formidable convergence force. Its investment banking group president Paul Schultz talks to Trading Risk...
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Deutsche Bank's Erik Manning is not only one of the architects of the innovative LAZR structure, but holds a PhD in the Theory of Risk. He shares his views of the future of convergence with Trading Risk...
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Henning Ludolphs is spearheading Hannover Re's ILS transformer and investor initiative. He shares his views on the future of convergence with Trading Risk...
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Leadenhall Capital Partners is the first dedicated vehicle to be formed by a Lloyd's insurer which specialises in the traded (re)insurance risk universe. Founding chief executive Luca Albertini is next to brave our five questions...
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Since founding ICAP in 1986, Michael Spencer has propelled the firm into becoming the world's largest inter-dealer broker, and in the perennial search for new asset classes, he has turned his attention to the (re)insurance landscape. Trading Risk gets his take on the ILS sector...
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Trading Risk talks to Frank Majors, a principal and co-owner at Nephila, which has grown to become one of the largest dedicated ILS investors in a total group of catastrophe funds estimated to control over $8bn of capital...