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Alternative Risk Transfer
Allianz has a comprehensive footprint across Asia, with its risks managed by a centralised buying strategy, as Amer Ahmed of Allianz Re tells SIRC Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker Ed is to be acquired by BGC Partners, a global brokerage and financial technology company. 29 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Freddie Mac, the US government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that provides liquidity to the US mortgage markets by buying mortgages from lenders, wants to increase the panel of reinsurers it works with over time to as many as 50—a move intended to ensure its credit risk transfer programme will remain stable and sustainable in the long term. 29 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The ILS market has continued its spectacular growth and steady evolution to become an important part of the re/insurance toolbox, according to Paul Schultz of Aon Securities. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Low interest rates remain a challenge for insurers—but some have innovated in an attempt to overcome this, as Chip Clark of New England Asset Management tells PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Insurers increasingly want their reinsurance to potentially give them a competitive advantage—and they expect their reinsurance brokers to innovate to achieve this, Mike Schnur, partner, TigerRisk Partners, told PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
The US re/insurance industry must learn the lessons from when the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (TRIPRA) was renewed in 2015 as it mulls the act’s expiration and possible renewal in 2020, Emil Metropoulos, senior vice president and workers’ compensation and terrorism practice leader at Guy Carpenter, told PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
Insurers and reinsurers must find a way to plug the protection gap in the US, revealed so starkly in the aftermath of recent hurricanes and especially relating to flood risk, David Sampson, chief executive of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), told PCI Today. 28 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The prevalence of alternative capital meant the industry’s response to the 2017 losses was very different from the past, with the new capital that entered the industry behaving in a way that was transactional and short-term—and almost desperate in some instances. 28 October 2018
Insurance
Insurers are increasingly baffled by the array of insurtech companies competing for their attention and are struggling to conceive a strategy that ensures they keep track of important developments, while ignoring irrelevant background noise. 28 October 2018
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