Trading Risk November 2019
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New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund posted a 2 percent drop in its ILS holdings over its financial year while Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec invested $500mn in a new insurance investment platform.
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Multinational measures have helped to close the insurance protection gap in Asia.
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California has become the “loss leader” of the homeowners’ insurance market, according to a new Aon study. -
Panellists at Trading Risk’s conference in New York said they were adopting a wait-and-see approach to Lloyd’s Blueprint One proposals intended to make it easier for ILS managers to participate in the market.
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The $1bn syndicate signals a move from the carrier to leverage the ability to share risk at the Corporation.
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Access to risk has been the biggest driver of M&A deals for independent ILS funds, TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory co-CEO Jarad Madea said at Trading Risk’s conference in New York last month.
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The World Bank is working on a pipeline of catastrophe risk transfer deals as well as looking into new perils, according to the organisation’s head of derivatives and structured finance, Michael Bennett.
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Amid the information overload of results season, “man-made catastrophes” appear to be the main emerging theme – albeit manifesting in two very different ways.
