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ILS continues growth outside property cat market, says ILS Capital Management

The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is expected to continue to expand beyond the property cat market and leverage ongoing growth in primary insurance, according to John Haggerty, partner and managing director at ILS Capital Management.   23 October 2019

Insurance

Ogden decision could undermine periodic payments and boost demand for lump sum payouts, warns Unipol’s Sordoni

The decision to set the Ogden discount rate at minus 0.25 percent is likely to push people being awarded large insurance payouts to demand lump sum payments, rather than periodic payment orders (PPO).   23 October 2019

Insurance

Mapfre Re grows in APAC with relationships in Singapore and Japan

Javier San Basilio, regional director Europe at Mapfre Re, said the reinsurer sees its future in building partnerships and relationships with clients.   23 October 2019

Insurance

Greenpeace protest brings burning house to Baden-Baden in call to insurers on climate change

Fires blazed outside the Kongresshaus in Baden-Baden yesterday as Greenpeace activists staged a peaceful protest urging reinsurers to stop providing coverage to insurance companies financially linked to new coal projects.   23 October 2019

Insurance

Data potential still relatively untapped by re/insurers: Gossmann

The re/insurance industry needs to unlock the potential of the huge amount of data it possesses, Arndt Gossmann, chief executive officer of Gossmann & Cie told Baden-Baden Today.   23 October 2019

Insurance

Reinsurance industry are where banks were in 2008 in relation to tech, says RMS

The re/insurance industry is now going through the changes that the banking and financial services sector encountered after 2008, according to Vivek Bajaj, managing director for Continental Europe at RMS.   23 October 2019

Insurance

CCR Re’s Montador welcomes investors’ robust questions on French-domiciled sidecar 157 Re

Investors that ask questions about CCR Re’s 157 Re, a sidecar vehicle launched in March this year, are cherished as this approach builds trust and ensures a robust solution, according to Laurent Montador, deputy chief executive officer at CCR Re.   23 October 2019

Insurance

Cyber and other emerging risks top the agenda for reinsurers, poll finds

Reinsurers continue to wrestle with the question of whether and how to engage with new and emerging risks such as cyber, with more than half of respondents to an Intelligent Insurer survey of the industry saying it was the big issue on their company’s agenda.   23 October 2019

Insurance

Ratings increasingly sought: Shipperlee

Contrary to expectations that solvency ratios would start to be seen as a substitute for credit ratings, credit ratings are in fact becoming more important, Stuart Shipperlee, managing director of Litmus Analysis, told Baden-Baden Today.   23 October 2019

Insurance

P&C must carve out distinctive strategies to maximise potential: Guy Carpenter

Competition and change are the only certainties re/insurers are promised in today’s market, according to the annual review of property and casualty (P&C) results from global risk and reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Company.   23 October 2019

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