Date / time
17/10/2014
1:00 pm

Moderator:  David Kendall (Edward Wildman and BILA Chairman)

Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) are a growing phenomenon in the re/insurance and capital markets.  They are having a significant impact on the financing and transfer of risk and are instruments and transactions that those involved in re/insurance need to understand.  Our distinguished panel will consider and debate the following questions:

•    What are Insurance Linked Securities and why are they used?
•    Who invests in ILS and why?
•    Why are ILS of interest to sponsors/cedants?
•    What are the risks of ILS and how are they modelled?
•    What is the future for ILS?

Biographies:

Luca Albertini:  Luca is a founding Partner and CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners, an asset management company set up in 2008, supported by the Amlin Group, and active in non-life and life insurance linked investments with approximately $1.8bn of assets under management.

Charlotte Acton:  Charlotte leads the RMS capital markets advisory function in London, including RMS risk analyses for 144A catastrophe bonds and other ILS, in addition to consulting projects for the RMS Miu investor community. Charlotte has worked on award-winning deals such as MetroCat Re Ltd, Tradewynd Re Ltd Series 2013-2 and Bosphorus 1 Re Ltd. She holds a PhD in Seismology from the University of Cambridge.

Chris Parry: Chris leads the International Capital Markets team of Aon Benfield Securities – the reinsurance investment banking division of Aon Benfield – focusing on Life and Non-Life ILS. Having joined Aon Benfield Securities in 2009, Chris has since led a number of successful international ILS transactions, most recently including Tramline II, Atlas IX, Lion I Re and Windmill I.

Marco Silva:   Marco joined SCOR in December 2011 as Deputy Retrocession Manager. His responsibilities include helping to ensure the team achieve budget for all SCOR Global P&C purchases of retrocession coverage. Prior to this, Marco worked for almost five years at a French-backed ILS hedge-fund which was based in Bermuda – the fund specialized in underwriting retrocession and catastrophe bonds. Prior to 2007, Marco worked for fourteen years at Everest Reinsurance Co. (UK Branch) as Manager of the non-proportional Property Department.

Booking closes at 12-noon on Thursday 16th October

Registration commences at 12.30

This lecture is followed by the AGM