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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
Insurance
Consolidation and yet more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the industry will be the biggest talking point in Baden-Baden this year, closely followed by negotiations over rates and terms and conditions, according to an online survey carried out by Intelligent Insurer ahead of this renewals season. 22 October 2018
Insurance
MGA owners perform better if their interests are aligned with those of their carriers. Citadel Risk Services has developed a unique way of achieving this, as Mike Palmer of Citadel explained to Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Parametric cat bonds can help the countries of South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Commonwealth of Independent States as well as Turkey (ECIS) close the protection gap associated with natural catastrophe risk, Kirill Savrassov, chief executive officer of Phoenix CRetro, a niche Bermudian ILS specialist, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
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