Matthew Ball

Matthew Ball leads the firm’s insurance consulting and technology practice in Bermuda and its global ILS consulting practice.

Matthew has extensive experience in the rapidly growing area of insurance-linked securities (ILS) and alternative capital. He works with various reinsurers and alternative capital structures globally including ILS funds, hedge fund reinsurers, sidecars and cat bonds across a wide variety of situations including independent third party valuation, pricing, financial modelling and operational due diligence reviews.

Matthew has written and spoken publicly on a number of topics including: valuation and collateral risk management for illiquid insurance-linked securities, alternative capital in reinsurance; casualty catastrophe modelling; inflation risk for P/C insurers; financial modelling for business benefits; reinsurance programme optimisation; UK and European asbestos valuation; deterministic vs. stochastic valuation methods.

Matthew is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and Casualty Actuarial Society and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA). He holds a degree (BSc) in mathematics from University College