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A mix of further declining rates, low investment returns and unsustainable reserve releases could push the return on equity of the reinsurance sector below the cost of capital and trigger a rating review, according to S&P Global Ratings. 10 September 2017
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While he is not expecting any radical change, the CEO of Barbican Insurance Group is always open to working with new reinsurers and will consider changing the structure of the company’s reinsurance programme to ensure he has the best fit for the shape and mix of the business as things stand. 10 September 2017
Insurance
London’s position as a reinsurance hub could be strengthened in the medium to long term if the UK government and regulators come to terms with London becoming an offshore jurisdiction again, Peter Allen, partner at Moore Stephens, told Monte Carlo Today. 10 September 2017
Insurance
Funding from the re/insurance and capital markets can help narrow the protection gap that exists in underinsured populations—a problem highlighted by Hurricane Harvey, Stephan Ruoff, CEO of Tokio Millennium Re (TMR), told Monte Carlo Today. 10 September 2017
Insurance
The record-breaking level of rainfall from Hurricane Harvey—combined with potentially high losses from Hurricane Irma—will help determine what, if anything, the market has learned since the 2005 hurricane season, the last time several major hurricanes made landfall. 10 September 2017
Insurance
As capital optimisation becomes ever more important to insurers, reinsurers can help them implement today’s sophisticated techniques for managing capital more efficiently, says Marco Sordoni, chief executive of UnipolRe, in an interview. 10 September 2017
Insurance
Studying infectious diseases is vitally important if insurers and reinsurers are to avoid getting caught out by the next outbreak of something like the Zika virus, the mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects, according to epidemic risk modelling company Metabiota. 10 September 2017
Insurance
Big data holds great potential for re/insurers, but only if they can validate and thus rely on it, Frank Fortunato and Kunal Patel of CATEX tell Monte Carlo Today. 10 September 2017
Insurance
The ‘counterfactual analysis of historical events’—scenarios that could have happened but have not—is an important tool not only for the assessment of uncertainty and disaster preparedness, but also for catastrophe insurance risk management, such as the estimation of the probable maximum loss. 10 September 2017
Insurance
Flaspöhler conducts an annual, global study designed to illustrate reinsurers’ competitive positioning and value proposition in relation to their peers. Here’s how the top reinsurers fared when brokers and insurance executives across EMEA were surveyed. 10 September 2017
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