A new insurance-linked securities (ILS) forum will be held in London on 8 and 9 July 2014 at the Kingsway Hall Hotel, which is designed to address the key challenges posed by the ILS market, the evolving role of reinsurers in the ILS space and the associated risks.
Speakers at C5’s Reinsurance and Capital Markets Convergence Forum include Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners; Jean-Louis Monnier, Head of ILS Europe for Swiss Re Capital Markets; Chris Parry, Head of International Capital Markets at Aon Benfield Securities; and Henning Ludolphs, Director of ILS at Hannover Re.
Once considered an exotic investment for specialists, the ILS sector has gone mainstream and is expected to reach $101 billion globally over the next few years.
This growth has been spurred on by a combination of attractive returns and a view by investors that ILS are seen to be largely insulated from mainstream financial and economic shocks.
Capital from the alternative markets currently totals 14 percent of the global property catastrophe reinsurance limit up from only 8 percent in 2008, cutting the market share of catastrophe reinsurance and keeping costs from rising.
“This is another good opportunity to meet members of the ILS community and to discuss recent tendencies in the ILS market, as well as to talk about bi-lateral business matters,” said Henning Ludolphs, director of ILS at Hannover Re.
The two-day conference combines seminars with networking opportunities and a comprehensive analysis of the current challenges and opportunities in capital markets and reinsurance as the ILS asset class is destined to soar.
