Higher rates may persuade ILS investors to stay

Insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors contemplating
leaving the sector because of low rates may be enticed to stay by
the price increases expected following the recent hurricanes,
according to Todor Todorov, head of ILS research at Willis Towers
Watson.
In the middle of 2017, some investors had been considering
taking their "chips off the table" as years of softening
rates meant that in some cases risk-adjusted ILS returns were not
meeting their cost of capital, the consultant said.
But an