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Insurance
Marsh & McLennan’s (MMC’s) reinsurance unit Guy Carpenter has seen its revenues fall by 20 percent year on year in the third quarter of 2018 to $215 million. 25 October 2018
Insurance
Macro sector trends such as rising yields and claims inflation will form the background for the next phase the re/insurance markets will enter, David Flandro, global head of analytics at JLT Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
New risk transfer products using structures underpinned by the capital markets and particularly the insurance-linked securities (ILS) community have represented the industry’s key source of innovation in recent years, Brian Secrett, chief underwriting officer at Tokio Millennium Re (TMR), told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Events
Recent natural catastrophe events including those in Japan will probably have wiped out all the reinsurance premium in the market, Matthew Wilken, deputy head of global reinsurance at Argo Group, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Keeping pace with developments in insurtech and attracting and keeping the best talent are high on the agendas of executives attending Baden-Baden this week, according to an online survey carried out by Intelligent Insurer ahead of this renewals season. 24 October 2018
Insurance
As Solvency II-based capital regimes further impact internal capital models, greater clarity around a company’s view of risk is becoming more important, but optimising model infrastructures is often limited by platform inflexibility, computational power and cumbersome approval processes, according to three executives from Guy Carpenter who debated this issue. 24 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The 2017 natural catastrophes, which resulted in record insured losses globally, also served to test the quality of reinsurance providers—and some stark differences in quality were revealed, Stephan Ruoff, CEO of Tokio Millennium Re (TMR), told Baden-Baden Today. 23 October 2018
News
Reinsurers have stopped worrying about the elongated soft market and are now more inclined to improve their performance in other ways. A panel discussed these trends at a roundtable in Baden-Baden, hosted by Intelligent Insurer and sponsored by S&P Global Ratings. 23 October 2018
Insurance
The insurtech phenomenon and the entire digital revolution are driving mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the global re/insurance markets—but companies must ensure any deals they consider make sense for their business and improve their overall strategy. 23 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
End investors, ILS funds, and buyers – the three groups active in ILS – have predominantly weathered 2017 loss activity with a view that reinsurance products backed by ‘alternative’ capital have become mainstream, according to a new Global ILS Market Survey by Willis Towers Watson. 22 October 2018
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