Alternative capital continues to grow. Bermuda continues to be the domicile of choice.
Insurance-Linked Securities Alternative Markets Find Growth Through Innovation September 2016 Click Here to view this report
Source: AON
Big ILS funds actively raise capital, collateralised Re focus grows: Aon
The largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers are actively raising capital at this time, which increasingly will be diverted to collateralised reinsurance as focus on […]
Source: Artemis
Bermuda: a safe harbour – Bermuda’s role is the risk transfer world
Having weathered competitive and recessionary challenges, Bermuda is experiencing a renaissance of sorts. Turbulence and uncertainty in other global hubs are making the industry’s […]
Source: Bermuda Reinsurance Magazine
Press Releases
ILS Bermuda announces Industry Keynote Speaker for Convergence 2016 – V.J. Dowling
ILS Bermuda announces Industry Keynote Speaker for Convergence 2016 – V.J. Dowling Hamilton, Bermuda – ILS (Bermuda) Ltd., organisers of Bermuda Convergence 2016 today announced one of the event’s two keynote speakers. The industry speaker will be Vincent J. Dowling Jr. Mr. Dowling is very well known to the (re)insurance […]
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NOVEMBER 9 – 10, 2016
Now in its fourth year, this networking event for the alternative reinsurance, convergence and insurance-linked securities marketplace is supported by the most respected organisations in the ILS sector. A two-day event that attracts investors and industry participants to Bermuda, the leading jurisdiction for ILS.
A NETWORKING EVENT
Convergence 2016 is recognised as the leading industry event for the ILS sector, hosted in Hamilton, Bermuda – the leading jurisdiction for the ILS market. Register to attend today.
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IN THE NEWS
Alternative capital continues to grow. Bermuda continues to be the domicile of choice.
Insurance-Linked Securities Alternative Markets Find Growth Through Innovation September 2016 Click Here to view this report
READ MOREBig ILS funds actively raise capital, collateralised Re focus grows: Aon
The largest insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers are actively raising capital at this time, which increasingly will be diverted to collateralised reinsurance as focus on […]
READ MOREBermuda: a safe harbour – Bermuda’s role is the risk transfer world
Having weathered competitive and recessionary challenges, Bermuda is experiencing a renaissance of sorts. Turbulence and uncertainty in other global hubs are making the industry’s […]
READ MOREILS a “bright light in an otherwise murky market” – Brent Slade, Horseshoe
Brent Slade, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ILS and reinsurance management, servicing, transformation and fronting specialist Horseshoe Group, has underlined innovation in the insurance-linked securities […]
READ MOREBSX's Greg Wojciechowski talks about Bermuda's positivity
Hear Greg talk about Bermuda's stability - an environment with the regulatory recognition and an innovative nature of a jurisdiction that is focused on commercial solutions to a global audience.
ILS Convergence - Bermuda Short: Dr. Robert Muir-Wood
Bermuda Short Topic: ‘Understanding Risk’
‘Adapting Earthquake Science to Expanded Risk Transfer’
Dr. Robert Muir-Wood, Chief Research Officer at Risk Management Solutions
Bermuda Hosts a Unique African Catastrophe Insurer
A new multi-country pool based in Bermuda will insure drought, weather cats and other large-scale risks that have been chronic problems in Africa. Organizers call it a "hybrid mutual" and say it was built to be moved.
Barney Schauble Nephila Capital: Investing in reinsurance and weather risk
Barney Schauble is a managing director of Bermuda based Nephila Capital, a leading investment manager specializing in the reinsurance industry investing in insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps, and weather derivatives.
Investing Book Summary: The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities
This is the summary of The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities (The Wiley Finance Series) by Pauline Barrieu, Luca Albertinini.
The ABCs Of Rating CAT Bonds
Insurance-linked securities, specifically catastrophe bonds, are receiving more investor attention as an attractive alternative investment. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor's Director Gary Martucci explains what ILS are and how we look at CAT bonds, and gives an outlook on the market.
Details of investment funds, catastrophe bond funds, hedge funds and fund managers who deal in insurance-linked securities, risk-linked securities and catastrophe bonds in Bermuda.
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