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Swiss Re $973M COVID Business Interruption Estimate Won’t Remain Outlier, CEO Says
While Swiss Re's $2.5 billion estimate of COVID-related insurance and reinsurance losses stands above most others around the industry, the situation is destined to change, according to the group CEO. ...
Pay New CEOs More To Gets Results: Research
While many previous studies focused on how CEO pay relates to past performance, new research from the University of Notre Dame takes a different approach: The paper examines how compensation for ...
Reinsurance Capital Dips; Capacity Available: Aon
Global reinsurance capital fell 6 percent to $590 billion for the first quarter of 2020, Aon reported in its June/July Reinsurance Market Outlook report this week The report, which also looks at ...
Argo Group Searches for New CFO, Updates Leadership Responsibilities
Argo Group International Holdings has started searching for a new chief financial officer and is updating responsibilities for its senior leadership team in a broader, related move. The Bermuda-based ...
What ‘Follow the Fortunes’ Means for COVID-19 Reinsurance Claims
How reinsurers will respond when cedents pay their insureds for COVID-related business interruptions remains an open question, legal and insurance professionals suggested recently, adding more ...
A Quarantine Dispatch on Metromile, Lemonade and Root’s Financials
Since the first article in this series, Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island, our principal goal in analyzing the quarterly statutory statements of the most relevant U.S. property/casualty ...
Diverging Views: Is COVID a One-Off Cat or Not?
While reinsurers are "open for business" and insurers and reinsurers are reporting the impacts of COVID-19 as a one-off catastrophe impacting earnings rather than capital, equity markets are viewing ...
Reinsurers Won’t Earn Cost of Capital; More Rate Hikes: Fitch
The global reinsurance sector will fail to earn its cost of capital in 2020 amid the coronavirus crisis, which will help maintain reinsurance price increases during the year ahead, said Fitch ...