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From Sagar Chakraverty, Opalesque Asia:

See Part One of the article here.

Nephila Capital’s managing director, Barney Schauble, sees catastrophe and weather risk trading as a fairly new asset class (the first securitization was offered to investors in mid-90s), but he believes that a meaningful change has taken place over the course of that 15 years. Initially, what was just an idea tested by very few companies - how to transfer risk out of the insurance market to an investor’s portfolio - has now become an accepted risk management practise for most large insurance and reinsurance companies.

Schauble spoke to the founder of Opalesque, Matthias Knab in a recent video interview (part two here) about the barriers to entry and the evolution of the catastrophe and weather risk market. He also shared his perspectives on capacity, growth, and outlook of these uncorrelated investment strategies.

Nephila is a Bermuda-based investment manager specializing in the reinsurance industry, investing in insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps, and weather derivatives.

Barriers to entry and evolution of this uncorrelated asset class This market has two categories of entrants: 1) multi-strategy hedge funds that have set up their o......................

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