Collateralised Facultative Reinsurance (CFR) - James Poole, AGILE Risk Partners

Episode 55,   Mar 17, 2021, 11:00 AM

For our latest Artemis Live interview we spoke with James Poole, Co-founder and Managing Directory of AGILE Risk Partners, who explained the concept of Collateralised Facultative Reinsurance (CFR) to our viewers.

For our latest Artemis Live interview we spoke with James Poole, Co-founder and Managing Directory of AGILE Risk Partners, who explained the concept of Collateralised Facultative Reinsurance (CFR) to our viewers. 

James and his business partners launched AGILE as a pure risk advisory, bringing broking expertise, and an understanding of insurer and reinsurer capital pressures together with technology to try and deliver a lower cost-of-risk for their clients. 

Recently, AGILE has secured risk capital from hedge fund investors amounting to $250 million and is now looking to secure opportunities to deploy that capital on a collateralised basis into what they are terming “special reinsurance situations.” 

With a maximum of $30m deployable into any single opportunity, the AGILE team hopes to build a diversified portfolio of really interesting risk opportunities for its investors, while helping cedents to reduce their cost-of-risk. 

James explained AGILE's thinking around the concept of Collateralised Facultative Reinsurance (CFR) and why he thinks that's the next big thing and a relatively untapped opportunity for insurance-linked investors.