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Maintaining underwriting and pricing controls will be vital for re/insurers going forward if they wish to improve their enterprise risk management (ERM) scores, according to two analysts at Standard & Poor’s (S&P) rating services, who spoke to PCI Today. 28 October 2014
Insurance
Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded SNS Reaal bancassurance group’s insurance operations. 24 October 2014
Insurance
Too much of the dialogue around market conditions disproportionally emphasises the challenges facing global and US property-catastrophe business, and ignores the very different dynamics in other market and product lines, Michael Pickel, member of the executive board of E+S Rück, the German-focused subsidiary of Hannover Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2014
Insurance
Re/insurers must hold their nerve on price in the current market conditions and be prepared to shrink if needed, Tom Bolt, Lloyd’s director of performance management, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2014
Insurance
Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) recent revision of its Lloyd’s market outlook to stable from positive could be the first warning of more negative actions and downgrades for the wider reinsurance industry. 21 October 2014
Insurance
Having attracted alternative capital with its potential for healthy returns in a low interest rate environment, the insurance industry is now facing the resulting challenge of declining prices and narrower profit margins. 21 October 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
ILS fund manager Twelve Capital has closed a €20 million private debt transaction for Alpha Insurance A/S of Denmark. 21 October 2014
Insurance
As cedants become ever more sophisticated in their understanding of ratings, analytical firm Litmus Analysis examines the ratings of the wide range of reinsurance carriers in Europe using a unique methodology to establish their average ratings. Here, Stuart Shipperlee, partner at Litmus, describes some of the
chart’s findings. 20 October 2014
Alternative Risk Transfer
The ILS sector is set to hit a record-breaking year for non-life insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance, despite a relatively quiet third quarter, according to a report from Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA). 17 October 2014
Insurance
Rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has upgraded insurer AXA’s outlook to positive to reflect what it said was an improved financial risk profile. 16 October 2014
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