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22 August 2024Reinsurance

Swiss Re casualty reserves highly discretionary, ‘some’ signals in book

Swiss Re's move to write massive new reserves against its casualty book was predominantly a matter of increased discretionary prudence, with IBNR reserves increasing as a portion of the whole and relatively fewer explicit signals of problems in the existing book, top officials have argued.

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