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Insurance
The insurtech phenomenon and the entire digital revolution are driving mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the global re/insurance markets—but companies must ensure any deals they consider make sense for their business and improve their overall strategy. 23 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
End investors, ILS funds, and buyers – the three groups active in ILS – have predominantly weathered 2017 loss activity with a view that reinsurance products backed by ‘alternative’ capital have become mainstream, according to a new Global ILS Market Survey by Willis Towers Watson. 22 October 2018
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More cedants are using reinsurance to reduce their earnings volatility as they attempt to make their businesses more attractive to investors in a low-yield environment, Jean-Paul Conoscente, chief executive of P&C reinsurance business globally at SCOR, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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The Guy Carpenter Baden-Baden 2018 Reinsurance Symposium has raised the question of where the recent wave of mergers & acquisitions (M&A) is taking the sector. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions business will reveal more details of two new units this week: one focused on de-risking public sector bodies and a new capital advisory unit. Nick Frankland, UK chief executive, discloses more to Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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New Reinsurance Company (NewRe) is eyeing significant growth potential outside the subdued European traditional property/casualty (P&C) segment, especially in life business, weather risk and structured solutions, Renate Strasser, chief executive of NewRe, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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Advances being made by insurtech will be fundamental to the industry going forward and is a key part of the strategy of broker Ed for this reason, Jonathan Prinn, group head of broking at Ed, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
The use of blockchain may help to overcome issues of trust between parties where there is a potential conflict of interest, and its use may even command a higher premium on contracts where the payment of a claim is automated, Magdalena Ramada Sarasola, senior economist at Willis Towers Watson, suggested to Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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Benoît des Cressonnières, chief executive officer of Euler Hermes Reinsurance, with responsibility for the company’s buying programme, says he is expecting a steady renewal with little change in pricing, despite some pressure from reinsurers for rate increases on the back of the 2017 catastrophe losses suffered by many global reinsurers. 22 October 2018
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To secure growth in Europe, Swiss Re is taking a more holistic and innovative approach, the firm’s Russell Higginbotham tells Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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