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Reinsurers expect profitability to rise in 2018
Reinsurance rates are poised to improve in 2018 as a result of the significant 2017 catastrophe events, particularly on US property catastrophe lines and in the retrocessional market – that is according to many of the executives who we interviewed for our year-end questionnaire.   2 January 2018
News
Fitch upgrades outlook on SCOR
Fitch has raised to positive the outlook on the A+ financial strength rating of SCOR and its main subsidiaries, reflecting improved profitability, strong solvency and financial leverage for its risk profile.   21 August 2014
Reinsurance
Competition has driven rates to a plateau
The growth potential of the reinsurance market in Asia is enormous given the relatively low insurance penetration compared with the more established markets of the US and UK, Siew Wai Wan, senior director, insurance, Fitch Ratings, told EAIC Today.   2 November 2014
Insurance
AXA at risk of downgrade post XL acquisition
Fitch Ratings has threatened to downgrade AXA following the plan to acquire XL Group due to financing risks related to the planned IPO of AXA’s US subsidiary.   7 March 2018
Insurance
Italian insurers at greatest risk from sovereign debt changes: Fitch
Insurers with large Italian operations will probably have the greatest increase in capital charges if European regulators were to remove the zero risk-weighting for sovereign debt under Solvency II's standard formula, says Fitch Ratings.   24 November 2015
News
Ownership change triggers Wilton Re upgrade
Rating agency Fitch has upgraded the insurer financial strength (IFS) ratings of Wilton Re and all its different units to A+ from A.   2 July 2014
Insurance
Larger re/insures pose risk to Lloyd’s: Fitch
The wave of merger & acquisition (M&A) activity sweeping over the re/insurance industry could pose a threat to Lloyd’s.   17 February 2015
Insurance
Fitch upgrades Mapfre as Spain stabilises
The insurance financial strength ratings of Spanish re/insurer Mapfre and its subsidiaries have been upgraded by Fitch Ratings largely on the basis of a stabilisation of Spain's operating environment.   1 April 2014
Insurance
P&C earnings up 30 percent
Property and casualty (P&C) operating earnings increased by 30 percent in 2013 and the group’s overall combined ratio saw a 5.2 point improvement to 93.3, according to Fitch Ratings.   25 March 2014
News
Q3 cat losses push reinsurance sector to 2017 underwriting loss
The significant third quarter 2017 catastrophe losses will push the global reinsurance sector to an underwriting loss for the year, according to Fitch Ratings.   8 December 2017

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