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Insurance
The heavy losses the industry has borne in the past two years caused by so-called secondary perils have forced something of a reset in the mentality of re/insurers, whereby some are relying less on the pure output from risk models and more on their own individual view of the risk before them. 21 October 2019
Insurance
Pricing across the risk transfer market continues to resemble a U-curve, with primary rates increasing, retrocessional rates increasing—but reinsurance pricing remaining stubbornly flat with only loss-hit accounts experiencing any meaningful rate hikes. 21 October 2019
Insurance
The market should brace itself for some disruption if the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is not extended in 2020—and carriers should definitely assume that changes to the terrorism backstop will be made, and prepare accordingly. 21 October 2019
Insurance
Bermuda remains the global leader in the ILS space. Helen Goonewardene, vice president, business development at HSBC Securities Services, Bermuda, told APCIA Today why. 21 October 2019
Insurance
Credit fundamentals will continue to reflect intense pricing competition and low investment yields, limiting profitability in the reinsurance sector. 21 October 2019
Insurance
CRESTA has updated all 4,901 low-resolution and 242,172 high-resolution CRESTA zones for the 137 countries it covers, following consultation with the industry. 21 October 2019
Insurance
Bermuda-based Maiden Reinsurance, the principal operating subsidiary of Maiden Holdings, has submitted filings to re-domesticate from Bermuda to the US state of Vermont. 21 October 2019
Insurance
“Technologies are already radically transforming the characteristics of risk assumed by the re/insurance market,” said James Nash, chief executive officer, international at Guy Carpenter, adding: “We are now living in the age of intangibles.” 21 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
The dynamic around rates and terms and conditions, the impact of alternative capacity on the market and how to grow those will be some of the biggest talking points at this year’s annual American Property Casualty Insurance Association conference in Boston, according to a survey of Intelligent Insurer readers. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
After several years of heavy losses and other unexpected challenges such as loss creep and trapped capital, insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors are much more cautious going into the year-end renewals, with many readjusting their portfolios and attempts being made by some to solve the problem of trapped capital. 20 October 2019
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