20 October 2014

ILS: a glimpse of the future

The reinsurance industry is now in a post-convergence world, many would argue. The use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) has become the norm for many larger cedants, new investors continue to enter the industry and yet more reinsurers are developing their own means of leveraging this form of capital.

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