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Insurance
Technology is opening up a world of data that allows insurers to make a much more precise risk assessment of clients. This offers an opportunity for the sector to boost profitability, but its use also comes with some moral dilemmas. Intelligent Insurer reports. 11 August 2016
News
Munich Re chief executive officer Nikolaus von Bomhard expects an industry-wide decline of reserves to drive reinsurance capacity down and help prices to stabilise or rebound. 9 August 2016
Insurance
The low interest rate environment and soft market will lead to greater consolidation in the industry, according to the majority of Intelligent Insurer readers who participated in an online survey. 5 August 2016
Insurance
UK insurer RSA reported a jump in underwriting profit in the first half of 2016 and expects a boost for future results from a lower sterling on the back of the Brexit vote. 4 August 2016
Reinsurance
ANALYSIS: Greenlight Re boss heralds new chapter despite more losses and criticism of business model
Losses at Greenlight Capital Re burgeoned in the second quarter of 2016 amid wider criticism of hedge fund reinsurers’ business models. But the company believes that it has now taken appropriate action to leave its problems behind. 3 August 2016
Alternative Risk Transfer
The London Market Group (LMG) has claimed that significant progress has been made in negotiations with regulators for the introduction of insurance-linked securities (ILS), with the necessary legislation set to be in place by the end of 2016. 28 July 2016
Insurance
London’s insurance market has historically been characterised as ‘male and pale’, with few women or people from ethnic minorities. Intelligent Insurer assembled a panel of insurance industry experts to look at how times are changing. 28 July 2016
Insurance
Demand for business interruption cover from the manufacturing industry is likely to replace privacy-related issues as the main motivation to buy cyber coverage in the US, boosting growth of the segment and helping it to mature in Europe and Asia. Intelligent Insurer reports. 25 July 2016
Insurance
With interest rates low and government bonds even lower, financial times have been tough for insurers and reinsurers alike. Intelligent Insurer asked five chief financial officers from some of the biggest companies in the industry about the challenges they’re facing. 22 July 2016
Insurance
Travelers is looking to grow its business but analysts are wary of the impact on profitability. 22 July 2016
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