Data & Research
Challenges for Foreign Investors: Marsh’s 2015 Political Risk Map
Falling oil prices, rising geopolitical tensions and separatist movements topped the list of challenges facing direct foreign investors, according to Marsh's 2015 Political Risk Map and report. The ...
Sea Level Rise May Come Faster, Greenland Ice Sheet Study Says
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second-largest body of ice on Earth. It covers an area about five times the size of New York State and Kansas combined, and if it melts completely, oceans could rise by ...
Fitch: Capital Levels, Continued Profits Support Stable P/C Outlook
In addition to opining that the momentum behind premium rate hikes is now exhausted in the property/casualty insurer sector, Fitch Ratings delivered predictions on key financial measures for 2014 and ...
What Analysts Are Saying: Have P/C Prices Peaked?
With the hardening price phase officially over for property/casualty insurers by some accounts, analysts are not yet predicting any severe price declines for the year ahead—and underwriting profits ...
Power Outages to Rise in NY, Philly, Other Cities: University Study
Cities like Miami are all too familiar with hurricane-related power outages. But a Johns Hopkins University analysis finds climate change will give other major metro areas a lot to worry about in ...
Marsh’s Top 10 U.S. Casualty Trends for 2015
Marsh's U.S. Casualty Practice sees a number of new insurance trends shaping the market in 2015, including a softening market, new capacity, and the greater use of data to enhance underwriting. Marsh ...
More Bad News for Reinsurers: Underperforming Stocks
Stocks for 20 publicly traded reinsurance companies performed far worse than the overall market for the first nine months of 2014, according to an equity trend analysis from A.M. Best. The analysis ...
Novarica: Large P/C Companies Widen Lead in Advanced Technology Race
Large property/casualty insurers are widening their lead over small- and medium-sized competitors in the race to add advanced technologies into daily work, Novarica concluded in a new report. ...