Convergence 2020 capitalises on digital event with record overseas attendance

ILS Bermuda turned a problem into an advantage with its Convergence 2020 conference, using the need to host its first digital event as an opportunity […]

Academics call on re/insurers to abandon cat models relying on historical data: Convergence 2020

A panel of academics at ILS Bermuda’s Convergence 2020 conference has slammed the re/insurance industry’s catastrophe prediction models as not fit for purpose. Cat models […]

Convergence 2020 panelists offer advice to soothe ILS growing pains

The ILS market has reached a critical stage of its development, according to the ILS investor panel at Convergence 2020, titled: Growth Spurts & Growing […]

Investors should push for more transparency from their ILS managers: Panel

End-investors in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector should be pushing for more transparency from their ILS managers now, aiming to level the playing-field with the […]

ESG more than just a branding exercise in ILS, panellists explain

Whether an asset class has positive ESG (environmental, social or governance) characteristics is one of the hot topics of the investing world, so naturally a […]

Meteorologist: climate crisis happening now

Insurers and reinsurers have been told that the climate crisis is the problem of our time, even more so than Covid-19. Marshall Shepherd, a leading […]

ILS must face up to challenges around secondary perils and trapped capital: Convergence 2020

Panelists on the ILS Manager Panel at Convergence 2020, titled: ILS at an Inflection Point, agreed with the sentiment implied in the title of the […]

Nephila to be Markel’s single point of entry for property CAT reinsurance

Nephila Capital is set to become the single point of entry for Markel to access property catastrophe reinsurance, as the company shutters its Markel Global […]

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