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An insurance trust offers a real alternative to letters of credit for UK and EU-based insurance programmes
looking to manage their collateral requirements, as Robert G. Quinn, senior vice president from Wells Fargo explains. 1 October 2012
Insurance
The influx of alternative capital into the industry in recent years will permanently change the industry’s capital structure, believes Brad Kading, president and executive director of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) speaking at this year’s International Insurance Society’s conference, which is being held in London this week. 24 June 2014
News
Healthy levels of reinsurance capacity combined with the convergence of traditional and alternative sources of capital helped keep rates stable in the recent April 1 renewals – a significant renewal date for the Asia Pacific region. 11 April 2013
Alternative Risk Transfer
Capital market solutions such as catastrophe bonds and collateralised quota-share reinsurance vehicles represent an increasingly viable alternative to the use of traditional reinsurance, according to a report by rating agency Fitch. 1 September 2012
Insurance
Flooding caused by rising sea levels linked to climate change will become a significant threat to society in the future causing great challenges around risk management, according to a report by Guy Carpenter which an analyses the evolving risk landscape spurred by global warming. 4 September 2013
Insurance
Tens of insurers and insurance associations have signed up to the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative’s Principles of Sustainable Insurance, which was launched at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. 22 June 2012
News
Zurich Insurance is buying less reinsurance as it seeks to actively deploy its own internal capital, according to Paul Horgan, global head of group reinsurance at the insurer. 17 September 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
Soft market pressures, a prolonged low interest rate environment, low barriers to ILS capital entering the sector, the digital economy, tepid GDP growth… Hiscox Re’s Bill Lazzaro argues that how we respond to the current challenges in the reinsurance sector will define our future. 15 December 2016
Insurance
Eighteen months since it walked away from a bidding war for PartnerRe, Axis Capital has completed a new deal with Novae. Albert Benchimol, chief executive of Axis Capital, explains to Intelligent Insurer why the company has never diverted from plan A, his view on third party capital and why he will sometimes send a client a cheque before a claim has been made. 20 October 2017
Awards
Claiming yet another title, highly regarded reinsurer Swiss Re took top spot for reinsurance company of the year with GWP of more than $2 billion based on the methodology explained below. 14 September 2014
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