All AM Best articles
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News‘Nowhere near’ drawing line under ‘legal system abuse’ – AM Best
US-based litigation funding is impacting social inflation – a key concern for casualty reinsurers, says credit rating agency
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NewsMGAs ‘huge success story’ ‘at the forefront of innovation’ for reinsurance – AM Best
Reinsurers should to be looking for the next growth area to engage in and steer, following the trajectory of the profitable cyber insurance market, AM Best’s RVS briefing suggested
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NewsReinsurers hold firm as market recalibrates, says AM Best
AM Best’s latest reinsurance market report finds global reinsurers maintaining disciplined underwriting, strong capitalisation and enhanced investment returns, as executives jet off to RVS 2025
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NewsAsian reinsurers expanding overseas as global players deepen regional roots – AM Best
Report from the rating agency highlights overseas growth, rising competition, and market shifts across Asia-Pacific
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NewsAM Best: Reinsurers cautiously upbeat despite rate softening ahead of Monte Carlo
Discipline holds firm on attachment points, as the re/insurance industry digests mid-year renewals, including rate softening, recent wildfire losses, and gears up for the usual hurricane season jeopardy and the Monte Carlo rendezvous.
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NewsDWIC 2025: Closing the catastrophe protection gap across MEASA
Panellists from Munich Re Underwriting Agents, Gallagher Re and AM Best discussed the catastrophe reinsurance market in the Middle East and beyond.
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NewsUAE insurers show strength amid storms and structural shifts – AM Best
Insurers in the UAE show signs of resilience following last year’s record rainfall, according to a new report from rating agency AM Best.
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NewsMENA re/insurers’ ratings trending ‘positive’ despite regional challenges – AM Best
Despite country risk and the Middle East and North Africa region’s challenging regional geopolitical conditions, the rating agency says re/insurers’ creditworthiness is net positive.
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NewsRatings maintained after reserve strengthening at Everest
Reserve additions for US casualty business adding up to $1.7bn for Everest Group did not change its credit ratings for AM Best.
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NewsRapid growth of MGAs continues to lead the sector – AM Best
Rating agency maintains is positive view on delegated underwriting authority enterprises segment, as well as for the global reinsurance business.
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News‘Rosy picture’ belies the challenges carriers face, Convex’s Brand warns
Speaking at an AM Best event in London, Convex’s CEO gave a (re)insurance carrier’s perspective to challenges, from claims activity, operating expenses and market cyclicality, to the balance of power between brokers and carriers.
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NewsReinsurer ROEs rise on underwriting, investment results – AM Best
AM Best’s DuPont analysis indicated reserve leverage for the composite dropped, led by non-life reinsurers, other than the ‘big four’, whose reserve leverage was relatively stable.
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NewsPositive pricing dynamics benefit MENA and SSA reinsurers – AM Best
Two reports from rating agency AM Best give an upbeat summary of the market environment for reinsurers in the regions of Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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NewsReinsurers increasingly directly deploying capital into primary market - AM Best
‘It’s not an existential moment for the industry, but it does highlight that primary markets will question whether they’re getting value for money or sufficient coverage,’ says AM Best’s managing director for analytics.
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NewsChanges in terms ‘as or more important’ than pricing – AM Best
Indicators are moving in the right direction and showing the positive position the sector is in, said the rating agency’s director of global reinsurance, speaking at RVS 2024 in Monte Carlo.
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NewsWhere are all the new reinsurers?
A hardening market usually heralds the arrival of new reinsurers, but this has not happened in 2023 and 2024. Two analysts from AM Best recently sat down with Global Reinsurance to try to explain why.
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NewsRapid premium growth among US MGAs ‘warrants greater oversight’ – AM Best
The rating agency suggests that US managing general agents (MGAs) need closer supervision from their capital providers, as their premium increased by 14.9% last year to reach $81.4bn.
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NewsAM Best keeps ‘stable’ outlook on Gulf insurance markets
The insurance markets of the Gulf countries are broadly stable, the rating agency said in a segment report, but reinsurance was flagged as a vulnerability for local carriers.
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NewsAM Best keeps stable outlook on global reinsurance, positive outlook for MGAs
The rating agency said uncertainty is mounting for reinsurers, despite “generational” hard market opportunities.
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NewsAM Best publishes reports on MENA and Sub-Saharan African reinsurers
The rating agency reports that reinsurers across MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa report topline growth, despite persistent or heightened economic challenges.
