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Insurance

Los Angeles wildfires may have already cost up to $30bn in losses

Analysts believe current California wildfires are a 1-in-30 or 1-in-20-year event.   16 January 2025

Insurance

South & SE Asian reinsurers can't price to beat inflation, AM Best warns

Improved investment earnings outlook can’t overcome claims and retrocession cost barriers.   20 September 2022

Insurance

Mitigation must be ‘priority’ as nat cat insured losses top $135bn in 2024: Swiss Re warns

The US drove two-thirds of global insured losses, fuelled by Helene and Milton.   5 December 2024

Insurance

Ledgebrook ventures into A&E space with Obsidian led by ex-Chubb veteran

The hire spent 12 years at Chubb, rising to senior underwriting officer.   21 June 2024

Reinsurance

TWIA ties it down: closes $6.2bn 1.6 tower with final $1.2bn treaties

With no back-up reserves, TWIA is ceding half its premium for cover as needs rise.   3 June 2025

Reinsurance

Munich Re will grow away from P&C re to build balance to 2030

P&C re will go ‘a little bit more sidewards' while L&H & primary stabilise group posture.   11 December 2025

Alternative Risk Transfer

Cat bond funds advanced throughout December, up 13.6% in FY2024

The cat bond total return performance index rose for all but five weeks of 2024.   6 January 2025

Insurance

Talanx tilts towards commercial over specialty in 2025 for growth

German insurer eyes US and Japan as underrepresented markets offering headroom.   19 March 2025

Insurance

Transactional risk insurance far outpaces modest 2024 M&A recovery

‘Ample’ capacity lies ready and waiting as deal pace picks up this year.   19 March 2025

Insurance

The true meaning of innovation

In the annual Intelligent Insurer roundtable in Baden-Baden in association with S&P Global Ratings, senior executives from reinsurers, brokers and buyers debated how the buying landscape is changing in Europe and what the definition of innovation in reinsurance should be.   24 October 2016

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