Tangency Capital Ltd., an investment manager in the insurance-linked securities (ILS) space with a focus on reinsurance quota share instruments, added a new Senior Analyst towards the end of last year, as experienced insurance-linked securities (ILS), parametric insurance and weather derivatives Bernard Finas had joined the company.While this hire was made in the fourth-quarter of 2024, it has only just come to light and we feel worth highlighting given the meaningful expertise Finas has in analysing and quantifying risks for natural catastrophe and severe weather exposed insurance, reinsurance and derivative instruments.It reflects growing analytical expertise at Tangency Capital, an ILS manager that has successfully raised funds in recent years and has been expanding its team at the same time.Finas joined Tangency Capital as a Senior Analyst in Q4 2024, but has only added the position to his LinkedIn profile this week.

Finas has a scientific, quantitative and analytical background in a range of industries, with positions that included analysing, underwriting and trading weather derivatives, working in the parametric insurance market, and time spent as an insurance-linked securities (ILS) quantitative analyst at SCOR earlier in his career as well.In his most recent career history, Finas spent three years working at weather risk and parametric specialist Meteo Protect, in analytical and underwriting roles of increasing seniority.Finas then set up his own consultancy The Weather Option Ltd., where he provided independent consulting to the weather risk marketplace.

He also founded Jola, a company that offered training, consulting and broking with a focus on parametric risk transfer and weather risk.His diverse and analytical background, as well as his quantitative capabilities, will assist ILS manager Tangency Capital in risk quantification, portfolio analysis and construction.Recall that, just yesterday we also reported that .

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