Michael Hamer was named Outstanding Contributor 2025 at the Insurance Insider ILS Awards ceremony in London last night. Hamer has spent the past 20 years at Albourne Partners, where he is a partner and senior analyst advising investors on how and where to deploy in ILS. […]

The Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) market has proven its resilience in the face of ongoing global challenges, continuing to attract investors with its liquidity and low correlation to traditional financial markets. As we see increased volatility in capital markets, ILS' low correlation and stable performance, along with attractive risk-return profiles, […]

A Convergence 2024 audience has heard of plans by the State of Louisiana to affect a “reinsurance and an insurance renaissance in Louisiana”. Tim Temple, the state insurance commissioner elected a year ago this month,[…]

Hurricane Milton will change the strategic future of the property catastrophe market, according to one ILS expert. Chris McKeown, chief executive of reinsurance ILS and innovation at Vantage Risk, said: “I thought we had retired the word ‘unprecedented’ after the last pandemic, […]

Bermuda does not know any way of developing  re/insurance except through innovation.  And the Bermuda and Lloyd’s markets are moving from competition to complementing each other, as demonstrated by […]

Hurricane Milton is an “unprecedently” large storm that will be a sizeable event for Florida, according to Vantage Risk Bermuda reinsurance CEO Chris McKeown[…]

Climate change poses an existential threat to Bermuda due to rising sea levels and that also makes it the perfect place from which to find solutions to climate change, a Bermuda Government minister said yesterday, […]

The insurance-linked securities sector can underwrite more casualty risk, a broker said yesterday. Shireen Gammoh, managing director within the Legacy and Structured Reinsurance team at Howden Re in Bermuda, said the casualty and legacy markets[…]

Speaking at ILS Bermuda’s Convergence 2024 event this week, David King, Founder and Senior Managing Director of Culpeper Capital Partners, stated that insurance-linked-securities (ILS) has been a major change that has helped drive a deconstruction of the traditional insurance and reinsurance balance-sheet.[…]