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David Flandro, the well-known broker who has previously headed analytics teams at JLT Re and Guy Carpenter, told Monte Carlo Today that his new role with Hyperion X, the data and technology arm of Hyperion Insurance Group, represents his most exciting challenge yet and an opportunity to take the use of data in the insurance and reinsurance industry to another level. 8 September 2019
Insurance
Given the current robust capital position of the reinsurance industry, market conditions remain favourable for cedants. As reinsurers and the capital markets adjust their risk assumptions, a period of readjustment is under way—and cedants’ loss history is becoming increasingly important. 8 September 2019
Insurance
Rates in the global reinsurance market are improving—but a true hard market is some way away, according to the latest market sector report by Fitch Ratings. 8 September 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
As cyber risk has an increasingly pervasive influence on the insurance market, the industry needs to find a better way to cover it. The solution could be finding a way to make it tradeable, Henri Winand, chief executive officer of AkinovA, an independent electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of insurance, reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) risks, told Monte Carlo Today. 8 September 2019
Insurance
The influx of alternative capital into the reinsurance industry has slowed recently, but is likely to pick up again, according to S&P Global Ratings. 8 September 2019
Insurance
After the 2017 and 2018 cat losses, investors are more cautious and seeking better returns. But with new ILS hubs emerging globally, the future of this market looks bright, Craig Smith of Deutsche Bank told Monte Carlo Today. 8 September 2019
Insurance
The challenges of modelling cyber are well known—lack of event data and expansions of coverage among them. CyberCube Analytics and Guy Carpenter have explored the size and shape of cyber catastrophes in a new report: “A US Cyber Insurance Industry Catastrophe Loss Study: 2019 Looking Beyond the Clouds”. 8 September 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
The 2017/18 losses and subsequent loss creep in the US has prompted insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors to take a fresh look at the space. Although far from abandoning the sector, they are becoming more discerning, Bill Dubinsky, managing director and head of ILS, Willis Re Securities, told Monte Carlo Today. 8 September 2019
Insurance
Although some rate corrections are taking place in the market, they are inconsistent and inadequate given how many years of softening the market has endured. 8 September 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Specialist Lloyd’s re/insurer Beazley’s innovative Smart Tracker facility, which it launched in 2018, is targeted to write $1 billion of business within five years, Patrick Hartigan, head of reinsurance at Beazley, told Monte Carlo Today. 8 September 2019
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