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Broker BMS is looking to collaborate with its suppliers and insurers to ensure it maximises the potential of insurtech solutions, and it has set up a new unit dedicated to achieving this, Adam Stafford, the chief operating officer of BMS Group, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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UnipolRe has tapped into a gap in the market by developing a new capital management tool designed to empower buyers, as the firm’s Simon Wigzell explains to Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Driven by an appreciation of the benefits of diversification and a search for healthier rates, many insurers have shown a growing commitment to the credit and political risk space in recent years, creating more choice for clients as a result. This has been widely supported by reinsurers. 22 October 2018
Insurance
The uncertainty around the nature of UK’s departure from the EU is causing re/insurers to protect themselves against whatever the worst-case scenario might be, as they prepare for the January 1 renewals, according to Mike Van Slooten, head of market analysis, Aon Benfield. 22 October 2018
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A growing number of larger insurers in Europe have restructured their reinsurance programmes whereby they place centralised multi-risk covers through global broker programmes—a trend that has made life tougher for smaller reinsurers. 22 October 2018
Insurance
It’s too early to assess the impact of Hurricane Michael on the re/insurance industry, Charles Goldie, chief executive officer of property & casualty at PartnerRe, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Lloyd’s profitability review could act as a catalyst to turn rates in the marine market—but larger insurers not part of the market could find it harder to achieve rate increases because of wider client relationships, Adrian Poxon, head of global specialty reinsurance, Sompo International, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
The growth in the use of insurance for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has created greater opportunity and cost-savings for all stakeholders. According to Aon’s M&A and Transaction Solutions: Risk in Review report released ahead of Baden-Baden, M&A insurance has changed the way deal professionals distribute risk and how insurers view the risk. 22 October 2018
Insurance
The search for capital relief under Solvency II and thin margins on the insurance side of the business are the two biggest factors driving demand for reinsurance in Europe at the moment, Jan Ekberg, president of EMEA, Axis Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Rising interest rates won’t, on their own, improve reinsurers’ operational earnings, and that they will is a common myth that needs to be dispelled—or at least better understood—by the industry, Stuart Shipperlee, head of analysis at Litmus Analysis, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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