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Some are suggesting a rotation of the investor base may be underway, with a move back towards more opportunistic funds. -
Ratings agencies suggest that carriers must do better on controlling volatility – but diverging risk appetites give the lie to the idea that the industry is walking away from risk.
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As the ILS market heads back to the office after summer breaks to get stuck into a busy conference season, we recap our top summer features and news coverage that you won’t want to miss.
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In the absence of a major tactical shift from Demotech, will the reinsurers become the de facto selection party determining which domestics survive?
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Market orthodoxy suggests cross-class reinsurers secure more leverage – but are there too many implicit offsets in this game?
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Collaboration should help protect against greenwashing fears but the industry should start with leaving behind the issue of the sector’s “inherent ESG” appeal.
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With reinsurance availability scarce and costs rising, several carriers have called an interim halt to new homeowners’ business.
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The carrier has shared insurance and reinsurance risk with ILS partners in the past, but the ILS team reports to Axis Re CEO Steve Arora.
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In certain areas more collaboration is needed but in others the market will continue to get more diverse as investors respond to post-Irma challenges in differing ways.
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Even though underlying ILS market conditions are improving, getting a hearing from investors could become harder.
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Catastrophe reinsurers are already off to a messy start for the year and may have eroded a significant part of their year-to-date Q1 cat budgets as floods are still unfolding in Australia following recent European/UK windstorms.
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Absent more significant reform, any changes this year look set to simply shift the timing of burdens falling on the public purse.
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