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There are some players in our industry who truly believe that any insurance risk can be securitised.
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Anyone scanning the news stories we have covered in the past week might get a sense of déjà vu.
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Shipping out risks to ILS partners might lift some weight off insurance balance sheets, but there are other counterweights that are worth bearing in mind.
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Arguably the single biggest challenge to face reinsurers attempting to attract third-party ILS capital is nothing to do with engaging in fundraising, estimating monthly valuations, or any of the operational facets of asset management.
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If the ILS market is all about convergence, is it still a worthwhile task to try to create dividing lines within the market, or is a movable border a better representation of messy reality?
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Regulatory investigations can move at a snail’s pace.
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The crucial thing for the industry now is that the nuances of the lessons from 2017-2018 are heard.
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Winners and losers may well emerge but many questions remain to be answered.
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Reinsurers are still figuring out just how costly 2018 was in terms of disaster losses – after all, 2018 has only just wrapped up and events such as the Sydney hailstorms lumped on further costs late in the year.
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Looking ahead to the rest of the year and 2020, how likely is it that the industry will hold to its resolutions?
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Last year’s feast has repeated on the market as Irma losses deteriorated, while fresh wildfires have caught out those who loaded up on liability exposure.
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Have reinsurers become so reliant on cheap retro that the task of writing their inwards portfolios is skewed by this support?