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2 May 2024   After several years of bad losses, 2023 saw reinsurers begin to rebuild their capital. With third-party capital still slow to return to the market, 2024 sees a more balanced market, according to SCOR’s global property & casualty.

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As one of the most challenging but also colourful years for the re/insurance industry in decades, 2022 made for some juicy and vivid quotes, dutifully written down by our reporters. Here are 10 of Intelligent Insurer’s favourites—we could have done 100!
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For those at Baden-Baden who had not decided so already, the protests made clear that the focus on ESG issues is not diminishing, only intensifying—and broadening.
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For all the devastation, the pandemic has brought opportunities when it comes to hiring and managing talent. As the crisis recedes, the industry must ensure they’re not lost, a Re/insurance Lounge panel discussed.
Insurance
It’s time to be less obsessed with technical skills and widen the search for talent. That is according to a number of senior executives who debated this issue on a Re/insurance Lounge panel discussion organised by Intelligent Insurer.
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Data can help meet the industry’s needs and customers’ demands, says Brona Magee of SCOR Global Life.
Reinsurance
Pandemic-related losses are large but reinsurers look to have avoided the worst with a combination of financial discipline and the arrival of a hard market. Will efforts to inoculate themselves against the pandemic in H1 continue to be effective into the second half of the year, and how will it affect the wider market? Intelligent Insurer speaks to Robert Mazzuoli, director at Fitch Ratings, to find out more.
Reinsurance
CEO Kessler says COVID-19 impact on reinsurer is ‘limited’ and points to a hardening market as ‘perfect’ conditions for SCOR to prosper.
Technology
AI offers the opportunity to boost the skills and value of underwriters as it ‘rides sidecar’ to people, providing on the job learning, says Richard Hartley, CEO of insurtech Cytora.
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6 February 2024   Cedants push hard on rate, but SCOR says profitability will ‘continue to deteriorate’.
6 February 2024   Alternative solutions provides 71% of y/y growth; core P&C flat, specialty cherry-picked.
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4 January 2024   Morgan Stanley likes Munich Re for strength & SCOR for upside; Hannover Re on back foot.
27 November 2023   The move aims to accelerate the growth of its third-party asset management activity.
16 November 2023   The fine print in 2023 renewals put 9M cat losses below budget for all four major players.
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