Securis Investment Partners

Securis Investment Partners has recruited Paul Wilson from RMS and former MS Amlin executive Adam Tidball to lead its non-life catastrophe analytics team for the firm.

The average second quarter returns for a group of ILS funds tracked by Trading Risk has increased to 1.36 percent, compared with 0.79 percent for the same quarter last year.

People moves in the ILS market.

Securis is considering establishing a full Lloyd’s syndicate for 2019 as it looks to trade forward in the 330-year-old market following the pending discontinuation of its joint venture with Axis, Trading Risk can reveal.

Insurers with huge exposure to "silent cyber" risk present a significant opportunity to the ILS sector, according to panellists at the Trading Risk ILS conference in London held last week.

Vegard Nilsen has been promoted to the role of chief executive officer of London-based ILS manager Securis Investment Partners after a fresh organisational restructure.

Securis will need to find a new partner for its Lloyd's special purpose arrangement (SPA) in 2019 after Axis gave the fund manager notice to discontinue their arrangement, sources told sister publication The Insurance Insider.