2022 SHORTLIST IS LIVE
We are proud to announce the 2022 finalists for the Trading Risk Awards.
Winners will be announced at our live awards ceremony on 28 April 2022 at The Savoy, London!
Entries
Open
19 November 2021
Entries
Close
20 January 2022
Shortlist Announcement
21 March 2022
Awards Ceremony
28 April 2022 - The Savoy, London
Prologis
Farmers Insurance Group
NN Re
TigerRisk Capital Markets and Advisory (TCMA)
Aon Securities
GC Securities
Swiss Re Capital Markets
IBRD CAR 130
Greater Bay Re
Kettle
Phoenix 2 Re
Project Decipher
Leadenhall Capital Partners
Transparency Questionnaire
AXA IM Alts
Green Cat Bond
Generali / Lion III Re DAC
ESG Framework/Kitemark
Guernsey
Syndicate 4321
Beazley
Climate Transition Pathways
WTW
Sidley Austin
Bermuda Stock Exchange
Mayer Brown
Ledger Investing
Laplace-C
Gibson Re
University of Illinois Revenue Hedge (Pandemic Trigger)
SkyRidge Re
Leadenhall Capital Partners/Guy Carpenter/Munich Re
Vita Capital VI Ltd. Series 2021-1
Vitality Re XII
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
Integral ILS
Leadenhall Capital Partners
Neuberger Berman
Gibson Re
Lloyd’s Central Fund Transaction/Constellation IC
Logistics Re Series 2021-1
Wrigley Re Series 2021-1
Aon's Capital Advisory team
Aon Insurance Managers
Guernsey
Verisk Extreme Event Solutions
David Griffiths
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Andrew Lauer
Elementum Advisors
Carlo Alberto Magnani
GC Securities
Aaron Garcia Ehrhardt
Hiscox Re & ILS
Craig Gillespie
Leadenhall Capital Partners
Gokul Sudarsana
Hudson Structured Capital Management
Luca Albertini
Leadenhall Capital Partners
Andre Perez
► Andre Perez is a successful entrepreneur and respected leader with over 30 years of experience in the global (re)insurance industry. He is the founder and Chairman of Horseshoe, a leading financial market services provider dedicated to both Insurance-Linked Securities (“ILS”) and the alternative investment fund markets. Under Perez’s stewardship, Horseshoe grew to become the largest ILS service provider in the world, and it was recently acquired by Artex Risk Solutions (Holdings) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher. In his role as the Chairman of Horseshoe, he is responsible for strategic business opportunities as well as mergers & acquisitions. Prior to founding Horseshoe, Andre held executive and consulting roles working for global enterprises such as Alea, KPMG, Coopers & Lybrand Canada and Zurich Insurance. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) and obtained his BSc. Mathematics from the University of Montreal in Canada.
Fiona Robertson Editor-in-chief, Trading Riskisk
► Fiona Robertson is currently editor in chief of Trading Risk, and global reinsurance editor for Insider Publishing. She joined Trading Risk and Insurance Insider in mid 2010, taking on the role of Trading Risk editor in 2012. Before moving to the UK, she spent several years working at the National Business Review in her native New Zealand, covering collapsing finance companies throughout the 2008 financial crisis.
John Nichols Former CEO, AXIS Re
► John “Jay” Nichols served as the CEO of the reinsurance operations of Axis Capital from April 2012 to April 2017. At Axis, he was instrumental in creating a team to launch Harrington Reinsurance. Jay was previously president of RenaissanceRe Ventures. After joining the reinsurer in 1995, he was responsible for establishing DaVinci Reinsurance, as well as several other ventures. Jay serves on several boards, including those of Baldwin & Lyons and National General Holdings.
Julia Henderson, President and Head of Portfolio Management, Stableiskisk
► Julia Henderson started her career in analytics for a small market research firm in Boston. She moved to Bermuda in 2003 and began working in RenaissanceRe’s ventures unit before moving into underwriting. She took a sabbatical to earn an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, she worked with Pine Brook Road Partners on several of their insurance related investments. After graduating, Julia worked as a consultant at Nephila Capital, advising on trading strategies. She then moved to PSQR, a start-up macroeconomics hedge fund founded by Paolo Pellegrini (who led Paulson & Co to their 2008 housing short win). In 2010, Julia joined Partner Re as an underwriter, and was later promoted to Vice President and Senior Underwriter, leading their worldwide ILS and worldwide retrocession portfolios. In 2013, Julia joined Brit Insurance, opening their Bermuda office as Senior Vice President responsible for building and managing Brit Bermuda's property treaty portfolio; Julia was also the founding executive director of Sussex Capital, Brit’s first open market third party capital fund. In 2018, she joined Lutece Investment Management as Chief Underwriting Officer. Lutece was acquired by Peak Re in April 2020 renamed Peak Capital. She recently joined the Board of Stable, an insurtech company focused on solving price volatility in the $5 trillion illiquid food commodity industry.
Jutta Kath, CEO uni-kath llc/ NED
► Over the past 32 year, Jutta Kath has held executive positions in the insurance and reinsurance industry in companies like HDI, Hannover Re, Converium, Winterthur Insurance, Zurich Insurance Group and Allianz. Her responsibilities span from claims to underwriting but also included the placement of reinsurance. Before founding her own consulting and coaching firm in late 2020, she was part of the ILS team at Schroder Secquaero. Since 2016, she has held NED positions at Uniqa Insurance Group and Uniqa Re. She also acts as the Chair of the Swiss branch of the Insurance Supper Club (ISC), a women’s’ network in the insurance industry. She is a fully qualified German lawyer, holds a coaching degree in neurodynamic self-management and is a speaker industry conferences..
Simon Cloney CEO, Steadfast Reis
► Simon Cloney has almost 30 years of (re) insurance experience. He specialised in treaty reinsurance prior to joining Beach & Associates in 2005 to develop a capital markets capability for the broker. In 2014 he completed an MBO to create Steadfast Re (Sydney), opening a London office in 2016.
Young ILS Underwriter of the year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be an individual, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2021, and working in the convergence sector to support the underwriting functions at an ILS manager, sourcing and/or analysing risk. Although young, the winner will be involved in portfolio management/underwriting-led roles and would already have made a significant contribution to the sector, clearly demonstrating a solid contribution to the future of the convergence market.
Candidates' entries must be supported by their department manager.
Young ILS Professional of the year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be an individual, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2021, and working in the convergence sector in a non-underwriting role (such as broking/trading, in investor relations or other service functions). Although young, the winner would already have made a significant contribution to the sector, clearly demonstrating a solid contribution to the future of the convergence market
Candidates' entries must be supported by their department manager.
Initiative of the year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be from any sector within the convergence market, whose specific initiative – including new trading technology, IT development, modelling innovation, new product, or the introduction of new parties to the convergence market – has significantly aided its development.
The winner of this broad category will be a corporation or a team whose specific innovation has made an outstanding contribution to improving the way that (re)insurance risk is transferred in the past year.
Reinsurance Facilitator of the year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be professional advisers to the convergence sector specialising in reinsurance services – including actuarial services, risk modelling firms and risk transformers among other facilitators of insurance-linked transactions.
The winner will have played a pivotal role in developing either a new trading risk technology or instrument or in developing the convergence sector.
Financial Facilitator of the year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be professional advisers to the convergence sector providing financial services – including legal advice, trust services or fund administration, among other facilitators of insurance-linked transactions.
The winner will have played a pivotal role in developing either a new trading risk technology or instrument or in developing the convergence sector.
Closing the protection gap initiative of the Year
Entry criteria: This award will recognise a reinsurance or ILS transaction that insures risk that was previously uninsured or not highly insured. The winning transaction will be able to show significant participation from ILS markets and demonstrate a benefit to the cedant in meeting their need for protection.
Manager of the year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be institutions or investment teams that have made an outstanding contribution to the development of the ILS investor community in the previous year.
The winner will have demonstrated a continued, deep commitment to the ILS sector alongside strong financial results, success in attracting new investors to the sector and an innovative or pioneering approach in sourcing risk.
Entry criteria: Candidates will be investment banks, capital markets divisions within broking houses or (re)insurance companies that provided an outstanding service to the ILS space in the past year.
The winner will be a company or a team, which has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the convergence sector through consistently managing ILS transactions and/or the successful launch of new trading risk technology, or a newcomer to the market that has enriched the sector through its involvement.
Non-life Transaction of the year
Entry criteria: Nominations will be welcomed for an elemental risk transfer transaction, which either breaks boundaries in elemental risk transfer, or cements the foundations of a core transaction.
The winner will be an efficiently structured, well-priced and successfully executed transaction, with the recipient either the individual or team that structured the transaction.
Life Transaction of the year
Entry criteria: Nominations will be welcomed for a non-elemental risk transfer transaction – including non-elemental, life and longevity securitisations, swaps, pension buy-ins or buy-outs – which either breaks boundaries in non-elemental risk transfer or cements the foundations of a core transaction.
The winner will be an efficiently structured, well priced and successfully executed transaction, with the recipient either the individual or team that structured the transaction
(Re)insurer/Sponsor of the Year
Entry criteria: Candidates will be (re)insurers that have either demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the convergence sector through consistent ILS issuance and/or adoption of new trading risk technology, or a newcomer to the market that has researched the sector and sponsored an innovative deal.
ESG Initiative of the Year
Entry criteria: This award will recognise a specific ESG initiative within the ILS market, either market-wide or at a specific firm. The winning transaction will show a solid advancement of ESG goals at the firm or within the industry.
Conyers is globally recognised as a leader in the insurance sector by the top onshore firms. We advise on a wide range of transactions and matters – and have done so for over 60 years. We act for the large majority of Bermuda’s insurers and reinsurers.
Conyers is a leading international law firm with a broad client base including FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies, international finance houses and asset managers. The firm advises on Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands laws, from offices in those jurisdictions and in the key financial centres of Hong Kong, London and Singapore.
Steadfast Re was formed in 2014 as a joint venture with Steadfast Group. Established in 1996, it is the largest general insurance broking network and the largest underwriting agency group in Australasia.
The Steadfast Network has 457 general insurance brokerages in Australasia who receive superior market access, exclusive products and services, backed by the size and scale of the Steadfast Group.
Steadfast Re has offices in Sydney and London an provides clients with Treaty and Fac products and service. We bring a deep knowledge of the ILS space stretching back to delivering some of the first sidecars to respond to Hurrican Katrina in 2005.