For our latest Artemis Live interview we wanted to take a deep-dive into into the recent severe winter weather and deep freeze event that affected a significant proportion of the United States in February, hitting Texas particularly hard. Early estimates suggested the potential for the insurance and reinsurance market, including insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds, to face losses of $15bn to $20bn. Over the last couple of weeks estimates have been coming down slightly, as greater clarity on

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For our latest Artemis Live interview we spoke with James Poole, Co-founder and Managing Directory of AGILE Risk Partners, who explained the concept of Collateralised Facultative Reinsurance (CFR) to our viewers. James and his business partners launched AGILE as a pure risk advisory, bringing broking expertise, and an understanding of insurer and reinsurer capital pressures together with technology to try and deliver a lower cost-of-risk for their clients. Recently, AGILE has secured risk

Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, gave a keynote speech titled "The Four Horsemen of 2021 (key reinsurance risks that won't go away)". This was a session from our Prospectus 2021 event, the new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020. Johansmeyer used the Four Horsemen to underline what he saw as the  greatest challenges for the insurance and reinsurance industry in 2021. The

For our latest Artemis Live video interview we spoke with specialist insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund manager Leadenhall Capital Partners' CEO Luca Albertini and CUO Jillian Williams, who gave us an update on their view on the ILS and reinsurance market and also explained more about environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities at the firm. We began by discussing the state of the market and Chief Executive Officer of Leadenhall Luca Albertini explained that, in January, property

This was another session from Prospectus 2021, the new annual reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference brought to you by Artemis in collaboration with sister title Reinsurance News in November 2020. This panel discussion saw us joined by some real experts in their fields of catastrophe risk and meteorological perils, to discuss the issue of secondary perils and climate change related risks. Participating were Kelly Hereid, Director, Catastrophe R&D, Liberty Mutual

Chamath Palihapitiya and David Soloff, founders of new startup OTT Risk, joined us to discuss their ambitions of unlocking private capital to support the non-damage business interruption insurance market. With the theme of our ILS NYC 2021 event being "defining the next-generation" of insurance-linked securities (ILS), the recent launch of a new tech start-up focused on the insurance sector named OTT Risk closely aligned with our thinking on the future of this marketplace. OTT Risk wants to

Time briefly stood still this week as the Internet became transfixed by the plight of Texas attorney Rod Ponton, whose face was trapped behind an expressive and panicked cat filter during a court hearing on Zoom. Mere hours later, the light-hearted mishap turned into a parable of contemporary online celebrity as allegations of serious prosecutorial misconduct surfaced against Ponton. This week’s show breaks down the video, its weighty aftermath, and the nature of fleeting digital fame. Also this

Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, a Verisk business, joined us for a second interview during our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference, this time to discuss the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on the reinsurance and insurance-linked securities market. The discussion focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and what its continuation means for insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance markets. We also spoke about how long the tail of the pandemic could prove to be, particularly

For this interview, with Cory Anger, Managing Director and Liam Martens, Vice President, both from GC Securities, the capital markets division of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, we discussed the next generation of catastrophe bonds. The pair joined us as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference, to discuss where catastrophe bonds could gain broader market acceptance and uptake. As well as how insurance-linked securities (ILS) in general can play an increasingly important role in risk

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This group discussion was held during our ILS NYC 2021 conference, to explore the expansion of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset class to cover a broader range of perils. We welcomed: Yaniv Bertele, Co-Founder & CEO of Vesttoo Ltd.; Thibaut Adam, Managing Director, Citi; Kenny Durbin, Senior Vice President, Guy Carpenter; and Matt Beard, Managing Director, Guy Carpenter. The panel joined us to explore areas of potential insurance-linked securities (ILS) market expansion as part of

For this broadcast, three specialist reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused Partners from global law firm Mayer Brown joined us as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference. Steve Rooney, Ricky Spitzer and Colin Scagell, all of who work on numerous insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance transactions and structures, shared their thoughts on the future of the ILS market with us. We discussed the important role of legal structuring within the ILS

Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson joined us as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference, providing an update on his important work at the intersection of climate science, capital, policy and risk. Rowan explained the importance of access to deep capital in financing for protection against climate risk and increasing climate resilience. Having spoken at our first ever ILS NYC conference five years ago, Rowan highlighted the need for industry

Michael Bennett, Head of Derivatives & Structured Finance at the World Bank Treasury kindly joined us for an interview as part of our virtual ILS NYC 2021 conference. He shared his thoughts on the World Bank's work in disaster risk financing and the use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) structures, such as catastrophe bonds, alongside traditional reinsurance, to help its member countries enhance their resilience. We discussed his views on where the World Bank's use of insurance-linked

Marcus Rivaldi, Managing Director, Analytics at specialist ILS and reinsurance investment manager Twelve Capital, joined us to explore environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference. We spoke about ESG (environmental, social, governance) and what the insurance-linked securities (ILS) sector needs to consider moving forwards. Discussing some of the important issues that need to be addressed to

Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, a Verisk business, joined us during our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference to discuss the important role of the industry-loss trigger in insurance-linked securities (ILS) and catastrophe bonds. He shared his thoughts on how use of the industry-loss trigger structure may evolve over the next few years in catastrophe bonds, ILS and reinsurance. He also provided some outlook on cat bond market activity and ILS for the coming year, as well as how such structures can become

Michael Millette, Founder and Managing Partner of Hudson Structured Capital Management joined us for this interview as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual insurance-linked securities conference. The discussion focused on Michael's views on the forward-looking development of the insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, as well as how capital use may change across insurance and reinsurance. The wide-ranging discussion also covered the special purpose acquisition company

Michael Stahel, Partner and Portfolio Manager, LGT ILS Partners, joined us to explore insurance-linked securities allocation strategies, as part of our ILS NYC 2021 virtual conference. For this interview we discussed what a next-generation insurance-linked securities (ILS) allocation strategy could look like. Michael explained how this has been approached at LGT ILS Partners in their collateralised reinsurance underwriting and ILS investment, as well as his view on how future strategies may