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28 February 2018Alternative Risk Transfer

How ILS can rise up to global terror risk

It doesn’t happen much, but when the market called for an independent global terror loss index, the PCS team knew it was time to act. Market dynamics over the past several years have made the need for cost-effective terror risk transfer acute, and absent a mechanism or industry loss warranty (ILW) trading, cedants have been short on alternatives.

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