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Alternative Risk Transfer
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market attracted US $2.095 billion of capital in the second quarter of 2012, up approximately $600 million from quarter one’s record $1.493 billion, said Aon Benfield in a mid-year renewals report. 12 July 2012
News
Having given up on reinsurance in recent decades, some large insurers have had a change of heart as they seek diversification and the access to the capital markets which reinsurers have developed in recent years. Is their bet that they can handle these volatile risks—and that their shareholders will back them—a risky one? Intelligent Insurer investigates. 14 May 2018
News
Platinum Underwriters Holdings repurchased 2.2 million of its common shares for $91.8 million during the three months ended September 30, 2010. 1 October 2010
Insurance
While the re/insurance industry has been forecast a period of intense M&A activity, a number of factors mean that deals remain few and far between—especially in the North American market and between players when both are based on home turf. Intelligent Insurer reports. 27 November 2014
Insurance
A series of new satellites to be launched by the European Space Agency will provide the insurance industry with new and unique data that will be invaluable to insurers underwriting certain types of risks including some energy and marine business. 13 December 2012
Alternative Risk Transfer
Providing multi-tranche catastrophe bonds gives large re/insurers the risk:return profiles they are most comfortable with, as Cory Anger, global head of ILS Structuring at GC Securities*, describes. 13 September 2014
Insurance
New products based on technology and data are increasingly being brought to market, while claims processes are being sped up through technologies such as blockchain, freeing up capabilities for new services, according to panellists at an Intelligent Insurer roundtable sponsored by S&P Global Ratings at October’s Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting. 10 December 2017
Insurance
As the re/insurance industry struggles to turn good ideas into tangible innovation, one solution could be investing in ideas and ventures in the same way as a venture capital fund, James Berkeley, managing director of Ellice Consulting, tells Intelligent Insurer. 14 December 2015
Insurance
Bermuda-based MS Frontier Re has appointed a new president and CEO. Starting on April 1, Toshiya Naito will take over the role from Keiichi Nakajima who will return to Japan to take on new responsibilities within MS Frontier Re’s parent company. Naito is a 25-year veteran with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, the parent company and sole shareholder of MS Frontier Re. MS Frontier Group recently completed a reorganisation on January 1 which saw the closure of MS Frontier Re’s sister office in Dublin. 13 March 2013
Alternative Risk Transfer
While alternative capital is here to stay, the industry could well experience a significant reset in rates if cracks in reserves widen and this combines with a big catastrophe loss, says Weston Hicks, the president of Alleghany, who also explains to Intelligent Insurer why his business is ready to benefit from such a scenario. 29 March 2017
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