Welcome to ILS Week
Trading Risk’s ILS Week will launch the (re)insurance market’s conference season with a series of seminars covering key topics in the alternative reinsurance market. Short but incisive daily sessions will get you up to speed on how the ILS market is reacting to the post-Covid opportunities and how the capital markets will shape the run-up to 2021 renewals.
Amid the whirlwind of the Florida renewals, the ILS market has been among the leaders pushing for reinsurance market change. The week’s sessions will cover:
- How will the sector ride out the challenges of a slow-developing catastrophe event and position itself for a new era of growth?
- The London ILS market’s evolution following major innovation and reform at Lloyd’s
- The retrocession segment’s challenges and evolution within reinsurer-managed vehicles
- The investor response to Covid-19 disruption
Each day will feature panel debates as well as head-to-head Q&A with key industry players over a 90-minute session that lets you carve out a manageable chunk of your day to further your understanding of this fast-changing market.
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20+ speakers
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Dirk Lohmann started his career with Hannover Re in 1980. In 1997 he assumed responsibility for the reinsurance activities of Zurich Financial Services. In 2001 Mr. Lohmann managed the spin-off of ZFS’ assumed reinsurance business into Converium where he served as CEO until 2005. Dirk founded Secquaero in 2007 which today acts as the exclusive advisor to Schroders Group on ILS investments with assets currently in around $3bn. Schroders holds a 50.1% shareholding in Secquaero Advisors Ltd.
Dirk has a long track record in developing insurance linked capital markets instruments. This includes Kover Ltd., first transfer of catastrophe risk to the capital markets through insurance linked notes in 1994, the portfolio linked K-2 Swap (1996), Trinom (2001) and Helix (2004) and two award winning life securitisations SQ ReVita I Ltd (2011) and SQ ReVita II Ltd (2015).
Mr. Lohmann also serves as a non-executive director of Schroder Investment Management (Switzerland) AG and Talanx AG.
He has a BA from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto and an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen.
Paul Schultz serves as CEO of Aon Securities, responsible for providing investment banking products and services to Aon’s clients on a global basis. Paul specializes in providing clients with strategic advice and access to capital markets.
Paul began his career in banking in 1986 and spent 14 years at JP Morgan (its predecessor banks), specializing in the Insurance Practice from 1989. Since joining Aon in 2000, Paul has advised Aon plc on issuing the first ever securitization of private equity limited partnerships and advised clients on M&A, starting new companies, issuing senior and subordinated debt, issuing equity and raising alternative capital via the issuance of catastrophe bonds, sidecars and other collateralized structures and derivatives thereof.
Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University. Paul also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Kellogg School of Management. Additionally, Paul is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Cate is responsible for business development with prospects in the UK & Ireland. Before joining Securis in June 2019, Cate worked at Spinnaker Capital from 2015-2019 as Head of Business Development and a non-voting member of the Investment Committees. Prior to that she worked at Brevan Howard Asset Management initiating and maintaining institutional relationships in the United Kingdom, Asia (ex-Japan), Australia and the Middle East. From 2007-2009, she worked at Gottex Fund Management initiating and maintaining institutional relationships in the United Kingdom and France. Cate began her career in 2006 at ZAN Partners where she was responsible for the global fundraising effort for the ZAN Alpha Fund. She holds a BA in Economics and French from Columbia University.
Richard Lowther has been involved in the re/insurance convergence and ILS market for over 20 years. Most recently Richard was the Managing Principal of Hiscox Insurance Linked Strategies, which he helped form in early 2014. In 2008 Richard helped found AlphaCat Managers, the Validus/ AIG ILS fund manager. Having launched two reinsurer-owned ILS platforms across various parts of the cycle, Richard brings a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities of ILS hybrid model. Recently he has left Hiscox to embark on his next ILS start-up adventure.
Philipp Kusche joined TigerRisk Partners in April 2016 as Partner and Global Head of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) and Capital Solutions. He has been a leading figure in the ILS sector for well over 15 years.
Tiger is a leading advisor on ILS structures, specifically having played a lead role in many of the sidecar structures developed over recent years.
Prior to joining Tiger, Philipp spent 14 years at Swiss Re, where he most recently was the Head of their ILS Structuring and Origination team in New York, responsible for and instrumental in creating and executing billions of dollars’ worth of CAT bonds, sidecars, contingent capital structures, and other alternative capital products for clients globally.
He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the Bauhaus University in Germany and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich (ETH). His Master’s Thesis, supported by Credit Suisse, was on public-private partnerships and their potential in Switzerland.
Gina is Director of Underwriting for Nephila Syndicate Management Limited and Active Underwriter for Syndicate 2357. Gina was previously Director of Underwriting and Interim Active Underwriter at ERS, a Lloyd’s specialist motor syndicate and managing agency and prior to that spent 11 years in various roles at Chaucer including Practice Head of their UK insurance business and prior to that she was Risk Officer at Chaucer for many years. Gina is a Chartered Accountant and has an Executive MBA from SAID Business School, The University of Oxford.