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Insurance
From its home market in Central Europe, VIG Re is expanding in Continental Europe taking advantage of its low cost base, Johannes Martin Hartmann, its chief executive, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
With more alternative capital coming into play, there is greater pressure on the reinsurance sector—but the key is to use it to their advantage, Ali Karakuyu, lead analyst, director, at S&P Global Ratings, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
New risk transfer products using structures underpinned by the capital markets and particularly the insurance-linked securities (ILS) community have represented the industry’s key source of innovation in recent years, Brian Secrett, chief underwriting officer at Tokio Millennium Re (TMR), told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
E+S Rückversicherung, a subsidiary of Hannover Re which writes German reinsurance business, said it expects positive premium development in the German market for the upcoming round of treaty renewals at January 1, 2019, albeit at a somewhat more muted pace than in the previous year. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Property loss activity has been benign in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the past five to six years, benefiting insurers and reinsurers—but this should not mean rate decreases, Christian Kreutzer, head of market underwriting CEE at Swiss Re, told Baden-Baden Today. 24 October 2018
Insurance
The infancy of historical claims data is perhaps one of the biggest hurdles for cyber risk modelling, but the advent of probabilistic modelling is a step in the right direction and can help the industry better manage the risk globally. 24 October 2018
Insurance
The challenge of how to respond to insurtech is one of the biggest concerns of top executives in the industry, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by AdvantageGo, part of NIIT Technologies. 24 October 2018
Insurance
Jeremy Brazil, who has overseen Markel International’s underwriting for nearly ten years, is stepping down from his executive role at the end of the year. 14 September 2017
Insurance
The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has claimed that the need to manage mega risks is “as important as ever.” 30 September 2015
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Against a backdrop of consolidation and change among global reinsurers, focused regional players can reap the rewards and offer cedants something they cannot find elsewhere: strong local knowledge and expertise, argues Fuad Kuliyev of Az Re. 23 October 2018
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