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Insurance
Industry veteran Ted Blanch wants and intends his new venture, a reinsurance broker that will be part-owned by its clients, to be a disruptive force in the industry, he told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
After several years of rapid growth in terms of its headcount and product offering, Everest Insurance North America, the specialty insurance operation of the Everest Re Group, has entered a period of fine-tuning the business and executing as the rewards of the expansion start to filter through, Mike Mulray, chief underwriting officer of the business, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
There has been a ‘double flight to quality’ by investors in insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds as a reaction to the losses of 2017 and specifically the inability of some ILS funds to get a handle on the extent of their exposure to the losses, Jutta Kath, chief operating officer, Secquaero Advisors, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Pricing in the mortgage credit risk market has reduced significantly in recent years, but it remains a very profitable business for reinsurers, with more showing an interest in moving into this sector all the time, Joe Monaghan, executive managing director of Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions business, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Re/insurers increasingly accept there may be little movement on rates yet again in the next renewals—and they are willing to judge lines of business on their own merits, Christopher Donelan, president and chief underwriting officer of North American reinsurance and head of global casualty at Sompo International, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
The US re/insurance market is grappling with many complex challenges at the moment but consolidation and insurtech are the biggest, Alan Levin, vice chair at law firm Locke Lord, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is largely in a good place but the market must accept that there is nothing ‘alternative’ about ILS any more—it’s here to stay, and a part of the furniture, Mark Hvidsten, deputy chairman at Willis Re, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
There are lucrative opportunities in the North American property-catastrophe treaty sector, which Lucy Forcey, senior underwriter for AmTrust at Lloyd’s (ATL) Syndicate 1861, plans to take advantage of. 30 October 2018
Insurance
PartnerRe wants to become a top five global reinsurer by doing what it does best—being a pure-play reinsurer and working closely with clients, Richard Sanford, president of PartnerRe, told PCI Today. 30 October 2018
Insurance
Rates will soften in the upcoming renewals but some pragmatic cedants prefer to preserve their long-term relationships with reinsurers, Adam Manus of Holborn tells PCI Today. 30 October 2018
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