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The soft market will continue into 2015 unless a big catastrophe loss occurs in the final quarter of 2014, David Flandro, global head of strategic advisory at JLT Re, told Baden-Baden Today. But more interesting questions exist—not around pricing but potential structural changes in the sector, he said. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Ill-disciplined underwriting in the soft market is building up a store of problems and potential legal disputes, which will only manifest when market conditions eventually improve and reinsurers feel they again have the leverage to dispute questionable claims. 21 October 2014
Insurance
There is potential for unwelcome surprises in the short time before Solvency II goes live, given the challenges facing insurers in relation to the capital model and, in the UK, matching adjustment approvals. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Zurich is placing an increased emphasis on fine-tuning its reinsurance-buying process in order to achieve the best value, Markus Meier, Zurich’s head of insurance management, told Baden Baden Today. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Reinsurers should be assuming higher levels of volatility from cedants than they have historically, helping smooth their clients’ long-term earnings in the process, believes Anna-Kitty Ekstam, head of reinsurance at Scandinavian insurer If…. 21 October 2014
Insurance
The reinsurance market will increasingly feel bruised and bloodied as competition intensifies triggering consolidation and even potential insolvencies, Peter Mills, chief underwriting officer of Endurance, told Baden-Baden Today. 21 October 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
An extremely active year for European windstorms in 2013 had a silver lining for the re/insurance industry in that it meant valuable data could be collected—something that will substantially improve the industry’s ability to model, price and insure such risks in the future. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) recent revision of its Lloyd’s market outlook to stable from positive could be the first warning of more negative actions and downgrades for the wider reinsurance industry. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Insurers should re-examine the suitability of their reinsurance programmes in light of evidence that weather risks are changing and causing more frequent small- to medium-sized losses in many markets, executives from Munich Re said in Baden-Baden yesterday. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Having attracted alternative capital with its potential for healthy returns in a low interest rate environment, the insurance industry is now facing the resulting challenge of declining prices and narrower profit margins. 21 October 2014
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