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Some re/insurance executives yearn for the heady days of a hard market but most are more realistic, given the abundance of capital in the industry. The recent hurricanes have given the market an insight into just how rates might respond to big losses, as Intelligent Insurer reports. 25 September 2017
Insurance
Lloyd’s is exploring the possibility of issuing insurance-linked securities (ILS) using new regulations that will allow them to be issued from the UK to protect the market, Inga Beale, chief executive of Lloyd’s, told Monte Carlo Today. 13 September 2017
Insurance
Despite the fact that scenarios similar to hurricanes Irma and Harvey had been included in underlying models, prices have not reflected the risk—and this must now change, Umberto Gavazzi, SCOR’s chief underwriting officer, treaty P&C, told Monte Carlo Today. 13 September 2017
Insurance
The current hurricane activity, which may continue during the rest of the year, could prove to be an acid test of reinsurers’ enterprise risk management (ERM) strategies, Stuart Shipperlee, partner at Litmus Analysis, told Monte Carlo Today. 13 September 2017
Insurance
The combination of a more active hurricane season in North America turning pricing in the market and the ceasing of quantitative easing in the US and Europe could trigger an end to the declining profitability of property/casualty reinsurance business, according to Denis Kessler, the chief executive of SCOR. 11 September 2017
Insurance
Hurricane Harvey, which wreaked havoc in Texas at the end of August, may have the potential to revive discussions around the pricing of catastrophe risk, Torsten Jeworrek, head of reinsurance of Munich Re, told Monte Carlo Today. 11 September 2017
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Munich Re’s projections for the reinsurance industry show little growth for the sector as excess capital continues to compete for business. But the reinsurer also believes that the losses generated by the recent hurricanes will trigger more demand. 11 September 2017
Insurance
New technology and the way data and analytics are advancing has the potential to transform the insurance-linked securities space, says Munish Singla, global head of Escrow Solutions at Deutsche Bank. 11 September 2017
Insurance
Some 11 bidders have thrown their hats in the ring to acquire the portfolio of Schwarzmeer und Ostsee Versicherungs AG (SOVAG), the Germany-based insurer, which is being restructured by Arndt Gossmann, the company’s chief executive since May this year. 11 September 2017
Insurance
Despite its long history and its distribution prowess, Lloyd’s and the London Market are at a point of a central transformation, said Nick Frankland, CEO of the UK business at Aon Benfield, speaking at a press conference the reinsurance broker held at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous yesterday (Sunday September 9). 11 September 2017
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