Coriolis Capital is a London-based fund manager, specialising in insurance and reinsurance linked securites (ILS) - primarily Catastrophe Bonds, Options, Collateralised Reinsurance and Weather Derivatives. These instruments earn an attractive spread relative to their risk, and have shown extremely low correlation with virtually all other asset classes.
Hear Coriolis' CEO Diego Wauters speak about:
* Why the financial and reinsurance markets are converging
* Opportunities & benefits for investors
* Is there an "ideal" insurance-linked securities strategy?
* Risk Management & Portfolio Construction in ILS
* "The proof is in the pudding": How did ILS and the financial markets do in the catastrophe years 2005, 2008, 2011?
* Who are Coriolis Capital's investors?
Diego Wauters is Chief Executive Officer or Coriolis Capital. Prior to founding Coriolis Capital, he was Global Head of Insurance and Weather Derivatives at SG, joining Société Générale's London office in 1998, after spending four years with AIG.
Mr Wauters was founder, President and CEO of AIG Combined Risks, which specialised in insurance derivatives and was a pioneer in Catastrophe Bonds and Weather Derivatives. Prior to this, he spent 11 years at J.P. Morgan in New York, where he was involved in the creation of some of the biggest start up insurance companies established offshore, and London where he became Managing Director in charge of M&A Insurance and Financial Reinsurance. Mr Wauters, who is Belgian, has five University degrees (including physics and insurance law) from the University of Louvain.
Coriolis was founded in 2003 after the team organised a friendly management buy-out from Société Générale. Having started trading these ILS instruments in 1996 as proprietary traders and then as fund managers since 1999, the Coriolis team has one of the longest track records in the industry. Coriolis funds have earned positive returns practically every year with minimal drawdowns. The Coriolis team has been together for thirteen years, with no turnover of senior personnel, legal or accounting service providers, while the two principals have worked together for more than twenty years.
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Coriolis Capital is a London-based fund manager, specialising in insurance and reinsurance linked securites (ILS) - primarily Catastrophe Bonds, Options, Collateralised Reinsurance and Weather Derivatives. These instruments earn an attractive spread relative to their risk, and have shown extremely low correlation with virtually all other asset classes.
Hear Coriolis' CEO Diego Wauters speak about:
* Why the financial and reinsurance markets are converging
* Opportunities & benefits for investors
* Is there an "id
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