Capacity shortfall writ large in 2022

The top stories in 2022 property-cat may have been the ones no-one ever got to write or read: the 2022 vintage reinsurers that never launched, the superstar debutantes that didn’t parade on Monte Carlo’s famous Carré d’Or, the fresh capital that never flowed. Some rumours swirled, but news seldom hit.

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