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18 April 2024   Current margin looks ‘unsustainable’ as market competition ‘intensifies.’

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Reinsurance
From hurricanes to droughts and the ‘fire belt’, the scale of cat exposure in LatAm creates intense demand for cat and operational reinsurance, says Eduardo Recinos Schonborn at Fitch Ratings.
Insurance
Eduardo Recinos Schonborn at Fitch Ratings compares insurance penetration, risk exposure and multiple economic factors to identify true growth opportunity in the region.
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.
Reinsurance
With Florida’s re/insurance market potentially just one major storm away from collapse, an Intelligent Insurer panel hammers out what needs to happen to make a real difference and, spoiler alert, Citizens is not their final answer.
Reinsurance
The cost of premiums might be high but investors are not lining up to try and get into the Florida insurance market—they’re leaving in droves. An Intelligent Insurer panel discusses what is going on in the sunshine state.
Insurance
There were sober and disciplined renewals in Asia-Pacific despite chaotic world events. After continually fighting fires since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, however, the key question may be how the market will respond to a period of calm.
Insurance
Renewals in the region were disciplined and perhaps even dull, but the diversity of the countries and differing lines means that drama is never far away. Capacity, as ever, is key, says an Intelligent Insurer panel.
Insurance
The economy and the world’s markets are moving back to some semblance of normality. Fitch Ratings director for EMEA insurance, Robert Mazzuoli, gives Intelligent Insurer his view.
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23 November 2023   Expect ‘less upward pressure’ as traditional reinsurers show appetite, alt-cap tags along.
22 November 2023   Fitch expects a significant recovery in earnings in ’23 and further improvements in 2024.
16 November 2023   The fine print in 2023 renewals put 9M cat losses below budget for all four major players.
5 November 2023   Florida legal changes starting to show results, and California needs to take heed, says Fitch senior director Christopher Grimes.
30 October 2023   Frequent natural catastrophes and uncertainty in geopolitical conditions have led to a continuation in the hard market, says Fitch Ratings.
23 October 2023   Liability has plenty of issues, but profit and reinsurance capacity haven’t been among them.
26 September 2023   The cyber insurance market in Brazil could be poised for rapid expansion, suggests a new report by Fitch Ratings.
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