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Insurance
Despite predictions of a rough hurricane season ahead for US insurers, the sector looks well prepared for such an eventuality according to A.M. Best, which notes that the industry’s collective balance sheet is hitting record levels even after Superstorm Sandy. 5 June 2013
Insurance
Rating agencies pay close attention to reinsurers’ competitive positions and determine this, in part, by examining a company’s ability to lead business. Peter Hughes, director at Litmus Analysis, examines the implications of this logic. 13 September 2015
Reinsurance
Analytical firm Litmus Analysis examines the ratings of the wide range of reinsurance carriers in North America using a unique methodology to establish their average ratings. Here, Stuart Shipperlee, partner at Litmus, describes some of the chart’s findings. 27 November 2014
News
Argenta Private Capital, a subsidiary of Argenta Holdings, has launched a vehicle that will offer high net worth individuals and institutions the opportunity to invest in businesses trading at Lloyd’s. 17 June 2013
Insurance
Amid challenging markets conditions, Intelligent Insurer compares the 2014 results of some of the world’s bigger players and examines the trends behind the explanations their chief executives give around their results. 5 May 2015
Alternative Risk Transfer
A series of ‘firsts’ seen by the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in 2014 have been transformational for the sector, which saw $7.8 billion of issuance, of which $1.5 billion represented the largest catastrophe bond in the market’s history. 7 January 2015
Insurance
A number of reinsurers have attributed fluctuations in their results to currency movements this year. But there should be no such excuse for such fluctuations given the tools that are available to hedge and better manage this risk, one currency specialist has claimed. 22 June 2015
Insurance
AIR Worldwide, the catastrophe modelling firm, has reported communities across southwestern Germany experiencing major riverine and flash flooding on the weekend following several days of heavy rainstorms that impacted a broad swath of Europe. 2 June 2016
Alternative Risk Transfer
Don Kramer is a legend in traditional reinsurance thanks to the multiple ventures he has founded and built over the years. Now, energised rather than perturbed by change, he is doing it all again—this time in the rapidly growing ILS space, as he explains to Intelligent ILS. 22 October 2015
News
Markel International achieved gross written premiums of $825 million in 2011, representing a 16 percent rise on the previous year’s results of $709 million. 2 February 2012
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