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Global cat: is now the time to grow?

As rates harden in some lines of business, Johannes Bender and WenWen Chen of S&P Global Ratings assess the strategic response of reinsurers.   30 October 2019

Insurance

LV= appoints Jon Mansley as sales and marketing director

LV= General Insurance (LV= GI), a personal lines insurers in the UK, has appointed Jon Mansley to the newly created role of sales and marketing director.   30 October 2019

Insurance

Losing home advantage

Home-court advantages are eroding for Asia-Pacific reinsurers as urbanisation and chaotic weather throw up new pricing challenges, Eunice Tan of S&P Global Ratings told SIRC Today.   29 October 2019

Insurance

US homeowners premiums grow, but rate hikes slow: Aon

US homeowners insurance premiums are forecast to continue to grow in 2019 with an increasing return on equity for insurers, according to Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions business’s annual Homeowners Return on Equity (ROE) Outlook report.   22 October 2019

Insurance

Hannover Re’s E+S Rück expects improved prices and conditions for 2020 on the German market

Positive premium development is expected on the German market in the year ahead, according to E+S Rückversicherung the Hannover Re subsidiary responsible for the group’s German business.   22 October 2019

Insurance

Reaping the rewards of an upgrade

Following its rating upgrade to ‘A’ last year, Sava Re is taking on more cat business and enjoying steady growth, as the firm’s Peter Skvarča and Edward Ottino tell Baden-Baden Today.   22 October 2019

Insurance

Secular headwinds to continue

S&P Global Ratings has maintained a stable outlook on the global reinsurance sector although the fundamental secular competitive trends haven’t abated. Karakuyu and Johannes Bender summarise S&P’s 2020 Reinsurance Sector Outlook.   22 October 2019

Insurance

Survey highlights hopes & concerns of APCIA delegates

Delegates attending the APCIA conference have their eyes on the horizon, according to a survey carried out for APCIA Today.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Hannover Re’s Pickel sees cyber risks as biggest challenge for reinsurers; with climate change, nanotech and superbugs also on the radar

One of the reinsurance industry’s biggest areas of focus continues to be cyber risk, said Michael Pickel, chief executive officer of Hannover Re’s German subsidiary E+S Rückversicherung, and member of the executive board at Hannover Re.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Guy Carpenter’s Nash tells Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium “we are living in the age of intangibles”

“Technologies are already radically transforming the characteristics of risk assumed by the re/insurance market,” said James Nash, chief executive officer, international at Guy Carpenter, adding: “We are now living in the age of intangibles.”   21 October 2019

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