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From:
Vincenzo lozzo <
Sent:
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 7:14 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject:
Insurance idea
Hi Jeffrey,
I've been looking more into the cyberinsurance stuff and it seems to=me that there's an opportunity on the tail end of
the risk.
I spoke to a bunch of brokers and reinsurers and every player in the market i= very concerned about catastrophic
scenarios (Eg: the whole Amazon cloud is=brought down by an attack) but because there isn't enough data and n=body
really trust the models it's very hard for say SwissRE to hedg= that risk.
So the idea here is to offer cyber-cat bonds on specific catastrophic scenar=os that have an hedging strategy available in
the capital markets (Eg: you c=n buy deeply out of money puts).
So the basic math ends up being:
Say you offer $100m of coverage with a 8% coupon for an amazon cloud outage t=at causes at least $5bn in aggregated
losses, the principal has to be fully=collateralized but you can still buy treasuries with it. So if nothing happ=ns, you make
8% spread on treasuries.
If the catastrophe does happen then you need to have a pool of capital you c=n use to short the company. Let's set aside
options for a second an= let's say that you just short amazon, if you assume that the event=is catastrophic enough such
that the share price goes down 10% you have to d=ploy about $330m (assuming the retail 3:1 level) to fully cover your
loss in prin=ipal on the cat bond side.
It's a bit more complicated than this because you want to use some t=ch to decide when to actually buy the options and
how to do some amount of p=rtfolio construction but the gist of it is the above.
I spoke with Aon and they think that it is possible a cat bond of that kind w=uld sell, the big issue here is that the capital
required is pretty high. = What do you think? Or more precisely, do you think it would be possible to r=ise capital for
something like this?
Thanks,
Vincenzo
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