Credit Suisse, JPMorgan Chase, Citi Global Investors, and Deutsche Bank Explain How Insurance Linked Securities Remain Lucrative

Finance IQ, a division of the International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC), will hold its 5th Insurance Linked Securities Summit January 28-30, 2009 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City (www.iqpc.com/us/ils). A diverse group of the foremost ILS professionals will provide comprehensive views and strategies surrounding this non-correlated asset class on the life and non-life sides of the market.

Industry-leading organizations such as Munich Re, XL Re, Renaissance Re, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Genworth Investments, Citi Global Investors, Nephila Capital and Oppenheimer Funds will come together through unique panel discussions that inform investors of risk transfer through not only the cat bond and P&C markets, but also the emerging and growing life settlements, longevity risk and life insurance securitizations.

Session topics include:

- The impact of the global financial crisis on ILS
- ILS gone bad: What happens when securitization goes wrong

- Investor’s perspectives on longevity and P&C markets

- Investigating the role of governments and the regulatory environment surrounding alternative risk transfer

- Issuer’s perspectives on cat bond market growth

- Clinical perspectives on investment risk for life settlement portfolios

The audience for this event includes professionals involved in the insurance linked securities markets through hedge funds, dedicated ILS funds, pension & endowment funds, reinsurance companies, life settlements investors & providers, fixed income investment managers, weather risk managers, actuarial consultants, capital markets specialists, portfolio managers and underwriting.

For more information, visit www.iqpc.com/us/ils or contact Peter Wasserman, Finance IQ Program Director, +1 646-502-3245 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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