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Insurance
The German life insurance market is heavily under pressure in terms of profitability, but this represents a great opportunity to provide finality to portfolios by using run-off as a strategic tool, Robert Buchberger, managing director at Pro Germany, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
From its home market in Central Europe, VIG Re is expanding in Continental Europe taking advantage of its low cost base, Johannes Martin Hartmann, its chief executive, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
With more alternative capital coming into play, there is greater pressure on the reinsurance sector—but the key is to use it to their advantage, Ali Karakuyu, lead analyst, director, at S&P Global Ratings, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
New risk transfer products using structures underpinned by the capital markets and particularly the insurance-linked securities (ILS) community have represented the industry’s key source of innovation in recent years, Brian Secrett, chief underwriting officer at Tokio Millennium Re (TMR), told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
E+S Rückversicherung, a subsidiary of Hannover Re which writes German reinsurance business, said it expects positive premium development in the German market for the upcoming round of treaty renewals at January 1, 2019, albeit at a somewhat more muted pace than in the previous year. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Property loss activity has been benign in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the past five to six years, benefiting insurers and reinsurers—but this should not mean rate decreases, Christian Kreutzer, head of market underwriting CEE at Swiss Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Short-term trading and the buying of live catastrophe coverage could become much more prevalent with the advent of real-time data—but it is still early days, Luzi Hitz, chief executive officer of PERILS, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Distributed ledger technology—blockchain—will level the playing field in the insurance market, but this is probably one of the main reasons it is being held back from more widespread adoption, George Freimarck, managing director of Xceedance Europe, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Run-off expert Arndt Gossmann has launched his latest venture in response to market demand following the introduction of Solvency II and to help dispel any stigma associated with using run-off as a strategic tool, he told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
The infancy of historical claims data is perhaps one of the biggest hurdles for cyber risk modelling, but the advent of probabilistic modelling is a step in the right direction and can help the industry better manage the risk globally. 24 October 2018
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