Non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) capital grew again in the first quarter of 2017, continuing the trend from 2016, according to the latest ILS Market Update from Willis Towers Watson Securities.

“Recent rise in interest rate is not expected to impact allocation of alternative capital to the industry as pension funds and asset managers view them more from diversification benefit vs. pure returns,” reports Morgan Stanley.

A new analysis suggests that the climatic trends that lead to greater hurricane activity also create a coastal buffer that weakens storms at landfall.

Investors continue to show increased interest in reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) as a diversifying asset class, reports Artemis.

Letting familiarity, rather than clearheaded analysis, guide your decisions can be a lot more costly in areas like saving for retirement.

We believe the following article, reprinted with permission from Trading Risk, makes some interesting points about the current risk vs. reward characteristics of the reinsurance marketplace, especially where leverage is concerned. We remind the reader that terms like “Expected Profit”, “Expected Loss”, “Tail Risk”, and “Tail Loss” are descriptive terms which compare current conditions to historical events, are no guarantee of performance, and that all investments carry a risk of loss.

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This publically available article from The New York Times Magazine is informative in the way that it describes the progress made in the science of weather prediction.

This linked article by Artemis articulates the heavy concentration in US wind perils by ILS markets.

Trading Risk announces Itochu Corporation’s equity investment in Juniperus Capital Ltd.

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With the merging in 2008 of Aon and Benfield, the broker had two investment management firms for the (re)insurance asset class to choose from, Trading Risk publishes.

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