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Alternative Risk Transfer
Market participants are expecting steadily rising reinsurance pricing over the course of 2019, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) analysts. 20 December 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings estimated its pre-tax loss from California wildfires in the range of $125 million to $150 million. 20 December 2018
Insurance
Swiss Re has reached an agreement with Japanese insurance group MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings (MS&AD) for a further investment of £315 million into ReAssure, Swiss Re's UK closed life book consolidator. 20 December 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Losses from hurricane Michael and the devastating Camp and Woolsey wildfires in California will feature prominently in the fourth quarter 2018 earnings, resulting in what is likely to be disappointing profitability for many reinsurers for the second consecutive year, according to Moody’s. 19 December 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Bermuda-based RenaissanceRe Holdings and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM are launching a new property catastrophe reinsurer called Vermeer Reinsurance to provide capacity focused on risk remote layers in the US property catastrophe market. 18 December 2018
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Though cyber risk is a distinctly global threat, the cyber insurance markets in the US and the EU have developed in different directions both in terms of products and pricing. This has consequences for players that are eager to take advantage of the significant growth potential of this line of business, as Intelligent Insurer discovers. 18 December 2018
Insurance
Lloyd’s and six market syndicates will begin using Parsyl, a supply chain data startup, to better manage risk for temperature sensitive classes of business. 17 December 2018
Insurance
S&P Global Ratings has rewarded strategic changes made by AXIS Capital, which include reducing its exposure to legacy liabilities generated by the Novae Group, by revising its outlook on the company’s ratings to stable from negative. 13 December 2018
Insurance
Re/insurers can capitalise on a growing capital efficiency gap caused by the impact of climate change if they can educate buyers and develop products able to solve some of these challenges, according to Greg Lowe, global head of resilience and sustainability at Aon, in a new report called ‘Weather volatility and chronic climate risk: a growing capital efficiency gap.’ 13 December 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Hong Kong-based Peak Reinsurance Company has launched what it described as Asia’s first sidecar transaction. 10 December 2018
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