ILS investors in double flight to quality post-loss creep

There has been a ‘double flight to quality’ by investors in insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds as a reaction to the losses of 2017 and specifically the inability of some ILS funds to get a handle on the extent of their exposure to the losses, Jutta Kath, chief operating officer, Secquaero Advisors, told PCI Today.

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