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Pension plans eye ILS as investment opportunity
Alternative Risk Transfer
Fifty percent of pension plans state that getting trustees comfortable with ILS is the biggest impediment to allocation. Noel Hillmann, managing director of Clear Path Analysis, takes a look at the findings of a recent survey.   23 March 2017
2016: An unusual catastrophe year
Alternative Risk Transfer
PCS designated more catastrophe events in 2016 than in any year since 1980, as Tom Johansmeyer of ISO Claims Analytics, a division of Verisk Insurance Solutions, reports.   23 March 2017
Technological change to force re/insurance to innovate at a macro level
Insurance
Innovation and change never occur in isolation—they happen because of external forces, argues Richard Clark, business development director at Xuber, a part of CSC, as he tells Intelligent Insurer about the drivers of change for re/insurers at a macro level.   22 March 2017
Insurance
Reinsurers are particularly exposed to the UK’s decision to lower the Ogden personal injury discount rate by far more than expected, which is boosting victims’ compensation and the need for reserves, impacting the profitability of the business.   21 March 2017
Insurance
Even when wider market forces clearly drive a need for change and innovation, it becomes possible only when companies are able to embrace and nurture these things at a micro level argues Richard Clark, business development director at Xuber, a part of CSC, as he tells Intelligent Insurer about the drivers of change for re/insurers at a micro level.   21 March 2017
Insurance
While Munich Re is currently shrinking its share of traditional reinsurance business, due to the current soft market, it is also investing in technology to create alternative growth opportunities through the coverage of new risks and advisory for risk prevention.   16 March 2017
Awards
Most (84 percent) of participants in an Intelligent Insurer survey want the way the personal injury Ogden discount rate is being calculated in the UK to change.   13 March 2017
Insurance
American International Group’s (AIG) US casualty business resulted in a $3 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2016 and in the resignation of CEO Peter Hancock.   9 March 2017
Insurance
In what has been a frantic period of M&A activity for insurers and reinsurers in recent years, companies from China and Japan have played a prominent role. As they seek overseas growth for very different reasons, Intelligent Insurer explores what is driving these aggressive acquisition strategies and the cultural challenges that will gradually emerge.   6 March 2017
Insurance
The UK Government has startled the re/insurance industry by decreasing the personal injury (Ogden) rate by far more than had been expected, causing companies to revise their profit results mid-reporting season.   1 March 2017

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