This podcast episode features the fourth panel session of the day at our Artemis London 2024 conference, which was held on September 3rd.

It was our third in-person conference in London focused on catastrophe bonds, insurance-linked securities (ILS), alternative capital and reinsurance-linked investment trends.

The fourth panel of the day was titled "Cat bonds – Primed for records, growth & key role in global risk transfer."

Participants discussed the state of the catastrophe bond market, the outlook for cat bonds through the rest of 2024 and beyond.

Moderating the session was: Philipp Kusche, Global Head of ILS, Howden Capital Markets & Advisory.

Joining him as panellists were: Florian Steiger, CEO, Icosa Investments AG; Michael Bennett, Head of Derivatives & Structured Finance, World Bank Treasury; Tanja Wrosch, Head of Cat Bond Portfolio Management, Twelve Capital; and Colin Scagell, Partner, Mayer Brown.

At the time of this recording the catastrophe bond market was still in its hurricane season lull, but panellists reflected on what was a record first-half of the year for cat bond issuance and their expectations for a busy pipeline to emerge over the course of the year. 

Investor sentiment and motivations were discussed, as well as the motivations of catastrophe bond sponsors, with all our expert panellists explaining that they expected activity would ramp up and create a record year of issuance, which we now know to have been the case.

Listen to the full episode to hear our industry experts discuss the state of the catastrophe bond market, the appetite of investors for new cat bond investments and the key role the cat bond market has developed as a source of reinsurance and risk transfer protection.