Insurance-linkedsecurities

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) are products of the rapid development of financial innovation and the convergence of the insurance industry and the capital ...

An insurance-linked security (ILS) is a financial instrument whose value is driven by insurance loss events.

Insurance-Linked Securities are financial instruments whose performance is determined by insurance loss events primarily driven by weather-related and other ...

Insurance linked securities, or ILS, are essentially financial instruments which are sold to investors and whose value is affected by an insured loss event.

Essentially, insurance-linked securities enable insurers and reinsurers to transfer risk from their balance sheet to capital market investors.

ILS are risk management tools allowing insurers and reinsurers to seek alternative capital by offloading insured risks to the capital markets ...

Insurance-linked securities (ILS), speci- fically catastrophe (cat) bonds, emerged as an attractive source of capacity for the industry and a diversifying asset ...

ILS are mainly used to protect property risks against natural hazards. However, there are also examples for other perils.

ILS is a way for companies to buy protection against the risk of incurring a loss as a result of an event.