Local insurers have “more skin in the game” due to the hard market for reinsurance.
Chief executive of Trust Re explains the reinsurer plans to restore it’s former rated A-rated status, putting an end to temporary fronting arrangements while its shareholding issue is resolved.
Onshore and offshore construction, M&A and financial lines are the top priorities for the reinsurance broker’s Middle East hub, Nadim Semaan told GR at GAIF34.
Global tensions are rising, but risk perceptions are in the eye of the beholder. Zurich’s John Scott discussed the big picture with Global Reinsurance.
It’s one thing to lead an insurance federation during a period of small, incremental change. But the role is different when the regional industry is undergoing a broad and deepening transformation.
David Flandro, head of industry analysis and strategic advisory, Howden Tiger, spoke to GR about the reinsurance broker’s view of where the market is heading after its most recent 1/1 renewal.
AI isn’t putting commercial and specialty lines underwriters out of a job anytime soon, but technology can reduce the protection gap, expanding the re/insurance market into fresh pastures, Russell Higginbotham, CEO of reinsurance solutions, Swiss Re suggests.
Fraser McLachlan warns that hail is becoming an increasingly serious threat, with re/insurers keen to limit exposure, which represents a challenge for new renewable energy projects.
A Ukrainian war risk loss event database, developed by Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman with the Ukrainian government, is in its testing phase, Julian Enoizi revealed to GR.
Lloyd’s of London’s flagship London Bridge 2 project for facilitating the flow of alternative capital into the market currently has between $500m and $1bn under negotiation, according to Lloyd’s chief financial officer Burkhard Keese.
The perfect storm of 2022 has nourished the green shoots of investor optimism in 2023
In this ever-more destabilised world, the post-Cold War rules no longer apply, explains Dragonfly’s Henry Wilkinson