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ILS Capital ‘pleased’ as refocus on M&E retro aids profits

Repositioning its book of business to better suit investor appetites is working well for ILS Capital Management, John Haggerty, the firm’s partner and managing director UK, told Baden-Baden Today.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Hannover Re’s Pickel sees cyber risks as biggest challenge for reinsurers; with climate change, nanotech and superbugs also on the radar

One of the reinsurance industry’s biggest areas of focus continues to be cyber risk, said Michael Pickel, chief executive officer of Hannover Re’s German subsidiary E+S Rückversicherung, and member of the executive board at Hannover Re.   21 October 2019

Insurance

Guy Carpenter’s Nash tells Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium “we are living in the age of intangibles”

“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

Insurance

Swiss Re CEO Reinsurance EMEA sees a ‘flight to quality’ as result of geopolitical and macroeconomic instability

Geopolitical and macroeconomic factors are creating uncertainty in the reinsurance market, causing “a flight to quality”, according to Urs Baertschi, chief executive officer, Reinsurance EMEA, and member of the group executive committee at Swiss Re.   21 October 2019

Insurance

How to identify clients by analysis of financial strength and underwriting performance

Reinsurers may think they know what the perfect client looks like but they might not always be correct. Stuart Shipperlee, managing director of Litmus Analysis, explains the perspective offered by the results of the consultancy’s analysis of North American cedants.   20 October 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

Rates, growth, and alt cap are the industry’s current main worries, survey finds

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

Insurance

Insurers including Lloyd’s can benefit from legal cannabis in US and Canada

Insurers at Lloyd’s could benefit from the rapid growth of the legal cannabis industry in the US and Canada, a legal expert has claimed.   20 October 2019

Alternative Risk Transfer

Trapped capital can be solved: ILS Capital MD Clinton

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 ILS market: Johansmeyer

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, says Guy Carpenter

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

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