Securitisation the route to 'insurance v.2.0': Shah

Insurers should consider much greater use of securitisation to
move to a more efficient "version 2.0" operating model,
according to former American International Group executive Samir
Shah.
Speaking at the Sifma IRLS conference in New York last week (24
February), he noted that the insurance sector ranked poorly among
both institutional investors and customers at present.
This partly reflected an "artificially high" cost of
holding risk on a carrier's balance sheet, which in turn
created greater