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Alternative Risk Transfer
Bermuda will “keep on keepin’ on” and doing what it is doing when it comes to insurance-linked securities (ILS), says Greg Wojciechowski, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Here he looks back at 2018 and forward to 2019 as the jurisdiction continues to work hard to develop and keep its solid platform. 19 December 2018
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More cedants are using reinsurance to reduce their earnings volatility as they attempt to make their businesses more attractive to investors in a low-yield environment, Jean-Paul Conoscente, chief executive of P&C reinsurance business globally at SCOR, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Rising interest rates won’t, on their own, improve reinsurers’ operational earnings, and that they will is a common myth that needs to be dispelled—or at least better understood—by the industry, Stuart Shipperlee, head of analysis at Litmus Analysis, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Parametric cat bonds can help the countries of South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Commonwealth of Independent States as well as Turkey (ECIS) close the protection gap associated with natural catastrophe risk, Kirill Savrassov, chief executive officer of Phoenix CRetro, a niche Bermudian ILS specialist, told Baden-Baden Today. 22 October 2018
Insurance
Randall & Quilter, the specialist non-life legacy insurance investor, posted a strong set of results for the first six months of 2017 as it benefitted from a robust pipeline of legacy business and the impact of simplifying the business, which has included some disposals. 4 September 2017
Insurance
Talbot Underwriting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings, has appointed David McKenzie and David Jones as class underwriters of Talbot’s financial lines team. 23 March 2016
Insurance
ArgoGlobal, a Lloyd’s insurer and member of Argo Group, has appointed David Ong as senior underwriter of marine hull and energy for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Lee Zi Yih as marine underwriter for Asia, as part of the expansion of its marine offering. 11 July 2016
Alternative Risk Transfer
The benign natural catastrophe environment has been just one factor driving difficulties for the re/insurance industry. These pressures were among the topics discussed by senior executives at a roundtable held in Hamilton, Bermuda, hosted by Xuber, a CSC company. 22 September 2016
Insurance
In order to reduce the $15.5bn protection gap in Europe, Swiss Re is bringing together representatives from the insurance industry, stakeholders from the EU Commission, the EU Parliament and other public sector organisations, and the academia to discuss examples of successful natural catastrophe schemes globally and see what learnings could be transferred to Europe. 8 June 2017
Insurance
European windstorms Xaver and Dirk, which hit Europe in December, could cost insurers some €1.16 billion, according to estimates by Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development centre at Aon Benfield. 8 January 2014
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