AM Best
30 October 2025 Ratings agency cites reserve charges and strategy shift.
13 October 2025
Latest Features
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.
More News
2 October 2025 As capital grows faster than market opportunity, shareholders may syphon the punch bowl.
30 September 2025 Without reauthorisation, 4.7 million FEMA policies worth $1.3trn are at risk: AM Best.
26 September 2025 Less government income means reduced spending on reinsurable infrastructure megaprojects.
25 September 2025 Even modest claims could strain Nepal’s small non-life market, worth around $225m.
23 September 2025 The segment may be $5bn under-reserved with rate inadequacy deepening.
19 September 2025 Helped by strong savings, competitive crediting rates and a steady regulatory backdrop.
15 September 2025 New entrants may be bringing delegated authorities into the E&S space en masse.
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