Secquaero Advisors is an independent Switzerland-based boutique established in 2007 by two seasoned professionals with over 45 years of combined experience in (re-)insurance business as well as actuarial and risk modelling fields, Dirk Lohmann and Hans Peter Boller.
The firm helps investors achieve enhanced and uncorrelated performance by accessing a broader spectrum of Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) opportunities than is the case with most ILS funds.
Secquaero’s management has an impressive track record of innovation in the field of insurance securitization. For example, Dirk Lohmann has initiated the first securitization of natural catastrophe risk, creating the first catastrophe bond (“Kover”) in 1994 while at Hannover Re.
This Opalesque BACKSTAGE is an in-depth feature about the opportunities and benefits of insurance-linked securities, a marked poised for huge growth as more risk gets transferred to the capital markets, particularly from emerging markets.
You will learn:
* What are insurance-linked securities (ILS)?
* Advantages & benefits of ILS for investors
* In which sectors are ILS instruments available?
* How can ILS managers manage risk?
* Why ILS managers have an edge over insurers
* Why Secquaero was not hit by the big 2011 Japan earthquake
* How will the ILS sector grow?
* Is now potentially a good time to invest in ILS?
Hans Peter Boller has almost 20 years of consulting, research and management experience in the insurance and reinsurance industries. He began his career at Tillinghast where he worked in risk management and actuarial functions in London and Cologne. During this time he was instrumental in establishing Tillinghast’s non-life presence, particularly in the German market, and provided consulting services to various European and Japanese insurance and reinsurance entities. Subsequently, he joined Zurich Financial Services where he served as Chief Actuary for the group’s reinsurance businesses (Zurich Re and Group Internal Reinsurance). Prior to establishing Secquaero Advisors Ltd. Hans Peter Boller was Chief Risk Officer and member of the Executive Board of Converium in Zurich.
Hans Peter Boller maintains an active role in industry and professional bodies. He is presently Chairman of the Swiss ASTIN section, a member of the International ASTIN Committee and sits on various committees of the German Actuarial Association (DAV). During 2006 and 2007 he served as a consultant to the European Insurance Association CEA (Comité Européen Assurance) on matters pertaining to the proposed introduction of the new European solvency standard for insurers (Solvency II).
Hans Peter Boller is a qualified actuary in Germany (DAV) and Switzerland (SAV). He studied at the University of Karlsruhe where he received a Master degree (Wirtschaftsingenieur) and a Ph.D. His doctoral thesis under Professor Hipp was on the application of mathematical concepts in the risk and capital management of (re)insurance companies through ALM and Internal Models.
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Secquaero Advisors is an independent Switzerland-based boutique established in 2007 by two seasoned professionals with over 45 years of combined experience in (re-)insurance business as well as actuarial and risk modelling fields, Dirk Lohmann and Hans Peter Boller.
The firm helps investors achieve enhanced and uncorrelated performance by accessing a broader spectrum of Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) opportunities than is the case with most ILS funds.
Secquaero’s management has an impressive track record of innovat
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