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10 June 2025 First-quarter combined ratio bumps up against 100% ceiling, still technically a profit.
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Alternative Risk Transfer
A multi-year rally for catastrophe bonds with accompanying flurry of issuance may have begun to spill over into growth for reinsurance sidecars and parallel collateralised ILS spaces as pricing disparity tempts investors back into the related sub-classes.
Insurance
It may be politics as much as premiums that is the deciding factor when it comes to Latin America’s re/insurance prospects. There’s massive scope for growth, but players cannot ignore a history of political instability, says II panel.
Alternative Risk Transfer
In our special LatAm focus during March 2024, Intelligent Insurer will reflect on and review the highs and lows of this huge, opportunity-filled region, starting with this look back at the conference.
Risk Management
Re/insurers in the region saw their four-year nat cat hiatus shattered in October, just as political turbulence looms—with 2024 marked out as a year of elections, says AM Best.
Insurance
It was billed as the toughest 1/1 renewals for decades, but did the reality live up to the hype? An Intelligent Insurer panel shared their inside takes.
Insurance
With sustainable investment well ahead of ESG integration elsewhere in the re/insurance industry, the sector badly needs someone to take the lead. It won’t be down to regulation alone, an Intelligent Insurer panel heard.
Insurance
The re/insurance industry is often accused of lagging when it comes to embracing ESG issues, but there are good reasons for its caution, around investments and underwriting.
Insurance
While perhaps the most fraught negotiations were over property cat during the 1/1 renewals in Europe, casualty and specialty lines also had their areas of contention. As with property, the outcomes for insurers varied widely, said an Intelligent Insurer panel.
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23 May 2025 Enhanced returns lift Fairfax’s capital base and future earnings potential, says AM Best.
19 May 2025 Analysts warn key issues such as pricing, caps and extent still undecided.
16 April 2025 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan singled out for creating cross-border reinsurance market.
15 April 2025 Demand-shocks and inflation kicks are no one-offs, second round impacts await: AM Best.
8 April 2025 Ratings agency revises outlook, sees plenty of positives.
7 April 2025 Tokio Marine, MS&AD and Sompo to sell off strategic equity holdings.
2 April 2025 The rate of decline is expected to slow, but AM Best is maintaining its negative outlook on the segment.
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