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Insurance
Bermuda remains the global leader in the ILS space. Helen Goonewardene, vice president, business development at HSBC Securities Services, Bermuda, told APCIA Today why. 21 October 2019
Insurance
Credit fundamentals will continue to reflect intense pricing competition and low investment yields, limiting profitability in the reinsurance sector. 21 October 2019
Insurance
CRESTA has updated all 4,901 low-resolution and 242,172 high-resolution CRESTA zones for the 137 countries it covers, following consultation with the industry. 21 October 2019
Insurance
Bermuda-based Maiden Reinsurance, the principal operating subsidiary of Maiden Holdings, has submitted filings to re-domesticate from Bermuda to the US state of Vermont. 21 October 2019
Insurance
“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
Alternative Risk Transfer
The dynamic around rates and terms and conditions, the impact of alternative capacity on the market and how to grow those will be some of the biggest talking points at this year’s annual American Property Casualty Insurance Association conference in Boston, according to a survey of Intelligent Insurer readers. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
After several years of heavy losses and other unexpected challenges such as loss creep and trapped capital, insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors are much more cautious going into the year-end renewals, with many readjusting their portfolios and attempts being made by some to solve the problem of trapped capital. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Loss creep remains a big issue for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, with some investors grappling with developments around the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Irma, which inflicted $77 billion in economic losses in the Northern Caribbean, Puerto Rico and Florida. 20 October 2019
Insurance
Wildfire risk is considered a “new major peril” by reinsurers after the heavy losses of recent years. But the industry has a much better understanding of this risk following investments in risk models and better education about the nature of the risk. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
US carriers hit by losses in recent years could be looking at rate increases of between 15 and 25 percent and all carriers will probably have to absorb rate increases of between 3 and 5 percent, David Carson, head underwriter at Pioneer Cat, a London-based managing general agent, told APCIA Today. 20 October 2019
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