This video features another session of the day at our Artemis ILS Asia 2023 conference, held in Singapore on July 13th 2023, a keynote speech by Yusuke Kikuchi, Managing Director at Aon Securities (Japan) on catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) activity in the Asia Pacific region.Kikuchi discussed the rapid economic growth potential of the Asia Pacific region, going on to highlight the magnitude of catastrophe losses that occur there and the resultant and still growing insurance protection gap.He went on to run through a timeline of catastrophe bond issuance in the region, highlighting key transactions and sponsors, as well as the handful of reinsurance sidecar deals that have been completed in APAC.Importantly, , which is helping to make the cat bond and ILS product range more appealing to sponsors.

Going on to explain that there is still outsized demand from ILS investors for access to APAC risks, which means any Asia Pacific focused cat bonds and ILS would likely be well-received, while also saying that demand for ILS investments from allocators in Asia Pacific also remains high and further flows to the asset class from the region should be expected.to learn more about catastrophe bond and ILS market activity in the Asia Pacific region.All of our video interviews have a focus on reinsurance, ILS and the efficiency of risk transfer and can be accessed directly from .

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