The better it gets, the worse it looks for reinsurers: UBS

Reinsurance softening is snowballing past a critical earnings threshold and continuing benign natural catastrophe tallies are likely now hurting the picture more than helping, analysts at a key equity brokerage have said while downgrading a top four European reinsurer to “Sell.”

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