21 March 2017Alternative Risk Transfer

Reinsurers lose out to non-traditional forms of risk transfer

Though insurers are ceding more of their premium than they were ten years ago, reinsurers have not necessarily benefited because more risk is being assumed by non-traditional risk bearing entities in various forms, according to research by Conning.

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