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Insurance
The re/insurance industry is in a much worse position than its bosses will admit and many carriers will be cashflow negative by the end of 2019, industry veteran Stephen Catlin has warned, in an explosive interview in which he stressed that any executive running a public company could not risk highlighting this reality to investors. 10 September 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
A mixture of innovation and further commitment to the reinsurance market will mean more opportunities for carriers to work with Freddie Mac, the US-government sponsored enterprise (GSE) that provides liquidity to the US mortgage markets by buying mortgages from lenders, on its risk transfer programme, Gina Healy, vice president of credit risk transfer, Freddie Mac, told Monte Carlo Today. 10 September 2018
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The reinsurers of the future will partner with alternative capital, leverage technology, give clients solutions they want and have a good handle on their cost base—those were some of the conclusions of S&P Global’s Annual Reinsurance Roundtable at the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo. 10 September 2018
Insurance
In association with Swiss Re, Monte Carlo Today conducted a survey of senior industry executives ahead of and during the conference. 10 September 2018
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PartnerRe is positive about the general outlook of the reinsurance market as it currently stands, according to president and CEO Emmanuel Clarke. 10 September 2018
Insurance
John Neal is “as good a bet as any” to take on the “toughest job in insurance” according to market observers speaking in reaction to the revelation just before the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous that he will take the reins at Lloyd’s. 9 September 2018
Insurance
Guy Carpenter has launched a new unit dedicated to helping insurers identify insurtech startups suitable to work with—eliminating much of the time, effort and risk currently associated with this process. 9 September 2018
Insurance
The recent new wave of consolidation has shown a further trend towards more companies operating so-called hybrid business models, whereby they write both insurance and reinsurance. Such a model can generate useful synergies, but it is also one of many factors driving consolidation, Torsten Jeworrek, member of Munich Re’s Board of Management, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The relentless evolution of insurtech will ultimately mean job losses and potentially a decline in the requirement for reinsurance globally, Clive O’Connell, partner and head of insurance and reinsurance at law firm McCarthy Denning, told Monte Carlo Today. 9 September 2018
Insurance
Against a backdrop of record market losses in 2017 and underwhelming rate increases, reinsurers are continuing to consider the ways they deploy their capital and are showing an increased appetite for investment in managing general agent (MGA) platforms. 9 September 2018
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