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Brazil’s reinsurance market: challenges loom amid growth
Brazil’s reinsurance market: challenges loom amid growth
10 February 2025   Can Brazil’s reinsurance sector achieve transition to stability?
Economic and political uncertainty shapes Colombia’s insurance landscape
10 February 2025
Secondary market cat bonds down by up to 20%: AM Best
6 February 2025
AM Best affirms James River Group A- financial strength rating
4 February 2025
MGAs can grow with to-date partners, struggle for new deals: AM Best
3 February 2025
Start of 2025 puts reinsurers on ‘alert’ amid rising uncertainty: AM Best
30 January 2025
US P&C earnings recover in first nine months of 2024: AM Best
27 January 2025
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Insurance
Unstable optimism in LatAm
It may be politics as much as premiums that is the deciding factor when it comes to Latin America’s re/insurance prospects. There’s massive scope for growth, but players cannot ignore a history of political instability, says II panel.
Alternative Risk Transfer
The Latin American re/insurance market: a rich retrospective
In our special LatAm focus during March 2024, Intelligent Insurer will reflect on and review the highs and lows of this huge, opportunity-filled region, starting with this look back at the conference.
Risk Management
Hurricane Otis: the end of LatAm’s nat cat calm
Re/insurers in the region saw their four-year nat cat hiatus shattered in October, just as political turbulence looms—with 2024 marked out as a year of elections, says AM Best.
Insurance
1/1 renewals predictions versus reality: five things we’ve learned
It was billed as the toughest 1/1 renewals for decades, but did the reality live up to the hype? An Intelligent Insurer panel shared their inside takes.
Insurance
ESG: why size matters
With sustainable investment well ahead of ESG integration elsewhere in the re/insurance industry, the sector badly needs someone to take the lead. It won’t be down to regulation alone, an Intelligent Insurer panel heard.
Insurance
Principles and priorities: re/insurers tackling the challenge of ESG
The re/insurance industry is often accused of lagging when it comes to embracing ESG issues, but there are good reasons for its caution, around investments and underwriting.
Insurance
No catastrophe for casualty, but challenges remained at renewals
While perhaps the most fraught negotiations were over property cat during the 1/1 renewals in Europe, casualty and specialty lines also had their areas of contention. As with property, the outcomes for insurers varied widely, said an Intelligent Insurer panel.
Insurance
Hard talk: European renewals push through price increases
Plentiful capacity didn’t save cedants from rising rates, and reinsurers showed discipline at the 1/1 renewals. But cedants saw wildly different outcomes, an Intelligent Insurer panel heard.
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Generali’s financial strength rating upgraded by AM Best
11 December 2024   The upgrade was driven by an improvement in Generali’s balance sheet fundamentals.
US P&C sees $4.1bn underwriting turnaround in 9M 2024
6 December 2024   The growth marks a sharp rebound from last year’s $32.1 billion loss.
Outlook turns for US personal lines driven by rates and capital strength
2 December 2024   Improved pricing conditions, particularly in auto, were among the key drivers.
US personal auto insurance outlook now ‘stable’, says AM Best
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Delegated authorities ride E&S growth, despite ‘double-edged’ risks
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