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Flood exposure data in Asia poses challenges due to the lack of precise location information, which in turn is making it difficult to underwrite this risk and close the protection gap, Iain Willis, managing director of JBA Risk Management Singapore, told SIRC Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Allied World’s acquisition of RSA’s operations in Hong Kong and Singapore as well as its takeover by the Fairfax group has strengthened the re/insurer’s capabilities and potential growth opportunities in Asia, Michael Garrison, president Asia-Pacific, told SIRC Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker Ed is to be acquired by BGC Partners, a global brokerage and financial technology company. 29 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The ILS market has continued its spectacular growth and steady evolution to become an important part of the re/insurance toolbox, according to Paul Schultz of Aon Securities. 29 October 2018
Insurance
US homeowners’ direct written premiums increased from $91 billion in 2016, to $94 billion in 2017, and could reach $96 billion in 2018 given rate activity through September, according to Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions’ annual Homeowners’ ROE Outlook report. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Insurers and reinsurers must find a way to plug the protection gap in the US, revealed so starkly in the aftermath of recent hurricanes and especially relating to flood risk, David Sampson, chief executive of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), told PCI Today. 28 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The prevalence of alternative capital meant the industry’s response to the 2017 losses was very different from the past, with the new capital that entered the industry behaving in a way that was transactional and short-term—and almost desperate in some instances. 28 October 2018
Insurance
Insurers are increasingly baffled by the array of insurtech companies competing for their attention and are struggling to conceive a strategy that ensures they keep track of important developments, while ignoring irrelevant background noise. 28 October 2018
Insurance
Hamilton Insurance is eyeing opportunities in the US small commercial market. This generates some $150 billion in premiums but, as a fragmented market with no dominant players, it is ripe for transformation, according to Pina Albo, chief executive of Hamilton Insurance Group. 28 October 2018
Insurance
The impact of insurtech on the reinsurance industry could be limited in the short term—but that does not mean that investments made now will not bear fruit in the future, Jean-Paul Conoscente, chief executive officer of P&C’s US operation and P&C’s reinsurance business unit, SCOR, told PCI Today. 28 October 2018
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