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AXIS Capital is ready to take the next step towards becoming one of the world’s biggest and most profitable re/insurance companies, according to Albert Benchimol, its president and chief executive officer, who warned competitors: “Now is our time.” 9 September 2019
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Value chain compression is an increasingly hot topic in the reinsurance market, but larger brokers can be reluctant to make changes. That is the view of Jason Howard, chief executive officer of Beach, speaking to Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
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Convex, Stephen Catlin’s new venture has now recruited 90 people including 20 product leaders and is opportunistically writing business—but it plans to really hit the ground running from the start of 2020, Catlin told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
Insurance
A lack of risk models covering some key perils in large parts of Europe is holding back the development of the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in the continent, Marco Sordoni, head of reinsurance buying for Italian insurer UnipolSai Assicurazioni, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity will continue for 2019, and into 2020, particularly in light of interest rates and abundant capital in the market, Parimah Hassouri, partner at Drinker Biddle and Reath, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
Insurance
Dan Malloy, chief executive of Third Point Re, is upbeat about the progress the company has made as it looks to realign its portfolio. Over the past two years it has expanded its underwriting team in line with plans to write a more diverse portfolio targeting lines of business with higher margins. 9 September 2019
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The reinsurance market is entering a phase of extreme disruption where it is becoming clear that rates have been structurally too low and must change, David Flandro, the managing director of Hyperion X Analytics, a joint venture between Hyperion X and RKH Reinsurance Brokers, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
Insurance
Cyber, climate change and achieving sustainable rates will be the three main talking points at the Rendez-Vous, as innovation becomes increasingly important to the industry, as Laurent Montador of CCR told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
Insurance
RICAP Bermuda, being trialled in Bermuda, will bring risks closer to capital and make the industry more efficient and transparent. That is just the start of what could become a global revolution, as Kathleen Faries told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2019
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Reinsurers will be more “thoughtful” and “selective” in the deployment of their capacity at this renewal as they take stock of the heavy losses, and subsequent loss creep from 2017 and 2018 and realign their portfolios. However, cedants that have performed well should escape any severe adjustments. 8 September 2019
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