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Investing in Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS): Educational Webinar Series

Discover the diversification potential of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS). Join our new educational webinar series exploring how ILS work and how our partnership with Swiss Re provides institutional access to this unique asset class.

Upcoming webinars

24 September 2026: Demystifying Quota Shares

Graham Diack from Swiss Re Insurance-Linked Strategies (Swiss Re ILS) and Rom Aviv explain how quota share reinsurance works and why it plays an important role in institutional ILS portfolios.

  • How quota share structures share premiums and losses
  • The importance of infrastructure for sourcing, underwriting, and portfolio management
  • Local market expertise combined with global diversification
  • Capital efficiency through inherited leverage
  • Alignment of interests, analytics, and portfolio management

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22 October 2026: ILS a Relative Value Analysis

Charles Mixon explores how investors can assess relative value across the insurance-linked securities market and identify attractive opportunities across different instruments and market segments.

  • Comparing catastrophe bonds, collateralised reinsurance, and other ILS opportunities
  • Key drivers of risk-adjusted returns
  • The impact of market conditions, liquidity, and pricing cycles
  • The role of modelling, analytics, and portfolio construction
  • Identifying attractive opportunities across the ILS market

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10 December 2026: GAM Star Cat Bond - 2026 Review & Outlook

Mariagiovanna Guatteri reviews the 2026 hurricane season and provides an update on the performance, positioning, and outlook for the GAM Swiss Re Cat Bond strategy.

  • 2026 hurricane season review and key market developments
  • GAM Swiss Re Cat Bond performance update
  • Portfolio positioning and risk management
  • Market opportunities heading into 2027
  • Outlook for the catastrophe bond market

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On demand webinars

10 September 2025: Why ILS and how to access

Portfolio diversification when you need it: With historically uncorrelated returns even during periods of market stress, discover Insurance Linked Securities.

Watch this exclusive webinar with Dr. Rom Aviv (Head of ILS, GAM) and Charles Mixon (Head of Business Development, Swiss Re): 

  • Why ILS is gaining traction among institutional investors
  • How to access the asset class effectively
  • What makes ILS resilient in volatile markets.

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13 January 2026: Secondary Trading of Cat Bonds

Weilong Su and Owen Sandercox from Swiss Re ILS introduce you into the world of secondary trading of Cat Bonds.

  • Trading mechanisms
  • Market patterns
  • Pricing dynamics
  • Liquidity impacts
  • Market growth, and the latest trends among issuers and investors

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30 March 2026: Industry Loss Warranties Explained

Mariagiovanna Guatteri from Swiss Re ILS and Dr Rom Aviv (Head of ILS, GAM), introduce the evolving world of Industry Loss Warranties (ILWs) and index linked instruments.

  • Market overview and instrument design
  • Strategic rationale for protection buyers and investors
  • Portfolio considerations and allocation discipline
  • Risk and modelling considerations
  • Examples and case studies from historical natural catastrophes

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ILS and Cat Bonds

Katastrophenanleihen: Diversifizierung, wenn Sie sie benötigen

Der Markt für Katastrophenanleihen (Cat Bonds) verzeichnet eine beispiellose Nachfrage nach Kapital.

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Disclaimer:Past performance is not an indicator of future performance and current or future trends. The indications could be based on figures denominated in a currency that may be different from the currency of your residence country and therefore the return may increase or decrease as a result of currency fluctuations. Capital at risk: all financial investments involve an element of risk. Therefore, the value of the investment and the income from it will vary and the initial investment amount cannot be guaranteed. Any reference to a security is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security.

GAM is not a client of SRILIAC nor an investor in any SRILIAC investment vehicles. SRILIAC serves as a co-investment manager sub-adviser with discretionary investment powers for certain of GAM’s investment vehicles. GAM has not received any cash or any non-cash compensation in exchange for this endorsement. GAM compensates SRILIAC in connection with the services it provides to GAM investment vehicles. As a result of SRILIAC’s investment sub-advisory co-investment management relationship with GAM, GAM has an incentive to make positive statements about SRILIAC, its employees and its affiliates.

Investors may lose all or a portion of their investment in ILS if a natural catastrophe or other event triggers a payment by an issuer of ILS under the underlying risk-transfer agreement to which such ILS relate.