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Record losses from the 2017 hurricane season have failed to trigger the rate increases the industry had hoped, with many experts and reports based on analysis of the recent renewals now suggesting that low rates may be here to stay. 29 January 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based Enstar Group, through its Lloyd’s managing agency StarStone Underwriting, has finalised a reinsurance-to-close transaction with AXIS Managing Agency for Novae's £840 million legacy business portfolio, according to a Jan. 29 press release. 29 January 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
After a long gestation the Risk Transformation Regulations (2017), passed in November, clear the way for a London-based ILS hub, say Philipp Kusche and Michael Wade of TigerRisk Capital Markets & Advisory. 29 January 2018
Insurance
Lloyd's underwriting syndicate Probitas 1492 has opened a regional office in Mexico City to serve the Latin American markets. 29 January 2018
Insurance
Lloyd’s chief financial officer has mooted the idea that brokers should reduce the commission they make on business placed in the market as a way of reducing the overall cost of using Lloyd’s. 26 January 2018
Insurance
The recent US tax change and the significant natural catastrophe losses that hit the market in 2017 are expected to trigger consolidation in the re/insurance sector with a particular focus on Bermuda. 26 January 2018
Insurance
Rate increases in the January 2018 renewals were lower than expected after the significant natural catastrophe losses of the third quarter of 2017 but retrocession catastrophe programmes increased by up to 20 percent, according to a JLT Re market report. 26 January 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based Aspen expects to record an underwriting loss of approximately $245 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to a Jan. 25 press release. 26 January 2018
Insurance
Sompo International, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty re/insurance has made a series of leadership appointments in the London Market, a "strategic growth area" for the company. 26 January 2018
Insurance
Losses due to wind from winter storm Friederike will range between €1.3 billion and €2.6 billion, according to catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide. 26 January 2018
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