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Our news team always has much more fun talking about the quirks of the ILS market than it does traditional reinsurance deals
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The ILS market got the chance to step out of the reinsurance spotlight this year at Monte Carlo, after several years as one of the key talking points during the annual Rendez-Vous. -
We have a running joke in the Trading Risk newsroom that we should shake up our annual awards by introducing a new category for the best cat bond title of the year
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"There's nothing to talk about!" is one of the most frequent complaints that I've heard at the past couple of Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous. In retrospect, you have to ask whether this was wilful blindness or misdirection
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As the traditional market met the capital markets head on with aggressive price reductions last year, the question now turns to what will differentiate the ILS sector in 2014 and beyond.
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The convergence market's capital base is widely expected to increase in 2014 for the second year running, the annual Trading Risk Market Survey shows.
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This was our inaugural Sifma roundtable, hosted during what turned out to be a bumper conference for the industry with a record level of participants taking over the hotel corridors to debate the growing prominence and power of alternative market capacity.
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The convergence industry expects another rosy year according to the annual Trading Risk Market Survey, with investor inflows forecast to continue their momentum in 2013
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It's a bright forecast for 2012 as the annual Trading Risk Market Survey showed the convergence industry expects to continue to benefit from new investor inflows, rising pressure on property catastrophe rates and regulatory change.
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When we gathered some of the industry's leading lights round a table in this great coastal retreat last year, we heard tales of how hefty H1 nat cat and man made losses might hasten the end of the latter stages of the late-soft market cycle....
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The convergence community definitely had its moment in the sun at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous this year amid an increasingly cloudy outlook for the reinsurance market.
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Just months before our group of convergence savants sat in a windowless room in the Fairmont Hotel in Monte Carlo, a group of hungry, competitive young men were speeding through the tunnel underneath our very feet at eye-watering speeds of up to 200 mph.
