Artemis Live: Interview with Peter Giacone, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA)

We’ve published a new Artemis Live video interview, featuring , who joined us to discuss evolving investor appetites and the ILS market.All of our video interviews can be accessed directly from and we have more interesting discussions with leaders of the ILS and reinsurance industry to come over the next few weeks.Giacone went into some detail as to how , as well as for insurance and reinsurance in general.Giacone explained that financial markets in general are seeing large flows from investors and that part of this interest is being shown to the insurance and reinsurance space.

But with traditional investment classes highly volatile, institutional investors have been looking closely at alternatives, especially those that exhibit lower correlation.As a result, .Giacone said that, “People have to adapt and that spells opportunity.

I think this asset class in particular is going to start to look more and more attractive.“A longer-term investor is going to look at ILS and say, you may have some temporary dislocations in the market when you have a high correlation, but over the long-term they’re going to see that this is an asset class that clearly behaves completely independent of what’s going on in other markets for the most part and therefore provides a tremendous opportunity.” , with Giacone explaining that he sees the potential for entire portfolios of ILS assets to be rated, rather than just individual bonds and he described how this could prove attractive to major investors such as life insurers.The full video interview is embedded below and can also be .

You can also listen in audio to these interviews by .We will continue to bring you these interviews with leaders of the ILS and reinsurance industry on an ad-hoc basis, as and when our time and that of our contacts allow.All of our video interviews have a focus on reinsurance, ILS and the efficiency of risk transfer and can be accessed directly from .

You can also listen in audio to these interviews by .We’re offering sponsorship opportunities for our broadcasts, including pre-roll adverts or simply sponsor the entire series, as well as facilitating one-off sponsored webinars and virtual events including roundtables, to help companies access our market-leading audience..———————————————————————.

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