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15 November 2022   Premium rate increases might match inflation but be insufficient to strengthen profitability, says S&P.
31 October 2022   S&P may stand apart from other rating agencies in focus on unrealized investment losses.
27 October 2022   S&P expect to make negative revisions to the ratings/outlooks of some insurers.
3 October 2022   S&P expects insured losses closer to the high end of $30bn to $40bn range.
10 September 2022   Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is maintaining its negative view of the global reinsurance sector, but expects that underwriting profitability will improve in 2022–2023 in both property/casualty (P/C) and life reinsurance.
8 September 2022   The market reserved £1.1bn net of reinsurance for claims related to the war in Ukraine.
6 September 2022   Inflation moves too fast to judge if current countermeasures will prove adequate.
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