All Analysis articles – Page 6
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AnalysisMondelez vs Zurich lawsuit shows cyber market uncertainties
Mondelez vs Zurich comes as the nascent cyber insurance market continues to develop with increased demand for cyber policies.
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AnalysisGR Innovation & Insurtech Bermuda: Talk about a revolution
Fresh thinking and converging insurance technologies are adding up to a revolution in the re/insurance sector, exemplified by GR’s Innovation & Insurtech 2018 event in Bermuda
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ViewpointsBig ideas from a small island
John Racher reports back from the GR Innovation & Insurtech event in Bermuda where attendees explored the challenges and opportunities of new technology and discussed their vision of the future and its changing lexicon.
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ViewpointsEditor's letter: Insurtech takes centre stage
Insurtech has moved from a peripheral re/insurance topic to the centre stage, GR consulting editor David Benyon writes
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PublicationGR Winter Edition 2018
Read the Q4 edition of GR, including features on wildfire, pandemic risk to mark the 100 year anniversary of Spanish influenza, and a roundup of coverage from Monte, Baden and SIRC.
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FeaturesPandemic risk: 100 years since Spanish flu
The potential for devastating pandemics is still there, with major accumulation risks for insurers and reinsurers increasingly relevant for non-life lines of business. By David Benyon
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AnalysisReinsurance market M&A continued in 2018
When RenaissanceRe announced it was acquiring Tokio Millennium Re for $1.5bn it was just the latest in a series of deals that have been reshaping the reinsurance sector over the past couple of years
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AnalysisILS investors count losses from Camp Fire
Wildfires will cost excess and surplus lines insurers, reinsurers and ILS investors, after the Camp Fire goes down as the worst wildfire in Californian history
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AIRRegional hubs Dubai and Singapore have much in common
Roger Bickmore hosted a GR roundtable discussion at SIRC 2018 on the links between Asian reinsurance and MENA business
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News AgendaReducing Indonesia’s protection gap
Protectionism versus the protection gap. By David Benyon
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ViewpointsHow long until a Chinese broker is in the global top ten?
Steve Hearn, CEO of Ed, spoke to GR about Chinese investment, broker consolidation, and growth prospects in Asia
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AnalysisReinsurers flexible on European cat pricing – Willis Re’s Tsimaratos
Following discussions in Monte Carlo, Willis Re expects rate flexibility from European reinsurers for the Continent’s catastrophe risks, while demand for earnings covers at lower attachment points provides reinsurers with some pricing opportunities
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AnalysisStable pricing expected, outlook positive – Swiss Re’s Higginbotham
Margins remain low, but Swiss Re’s Russell Higginbotham thinks the mood is positive and expects a stable renewal at 1/1
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ViewpointsTigerRisk: Insurers of the Future - What They Have in Common
TigerRisk’s head of EMEA lists attributes of outperforming companies. By Marc Beckers, in association with TigerRisk
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ViewpointsRising interest rates to boost insurers’ profitability – Moody’s
Confidence in a gradual, if uneven, rise in global interest rates may be starting to take hold, according to a report from Moody’s Investors Service
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ViewpointsWe’re in a new market cycle - Flandro
While alternative capital continues to grow, JLT Re’s global analytics head thinks that some previous predictions of it taking 40% or more the catastrophe risk market by now were overblown
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ViewpointsResilient in the face of change: Reinsurance centres in 2018
London and Lloyd’s, followed by Dubai, Zurich and Bermuda have shown the greatest innovation over the past 12 months, according to 50 senior reinsurance leaders surveyed by GR, in association with Dubai International Financial Centre
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ViewpointsA tale of two systems: terrorism reinsurance backstops in the US & UK
Terrorism reinsurance backstops Pool Re and TRIA were set up within different contexts and the two structures have evolved differently. David Benyon reports
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AnalysisILS Analysis: Closing in
As ILS funds continue to demonstrate an interest to get closer to the risk, questions around whether this capital is here to stay cease to be relevant
