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Reinsurance Execs Weigh In on Pricing
Q: The Pricing Environment.Recent rating agency reports contained the following observations about the reinsurance pricing environment: S&P: "Price competition for global property/casualty ...
Questions About the Future of the Reinsurance Market Answered
Anthropologist Paula Jarzabkowski raised questions about the stability of the industry after digging up its history for her book "Making a Market for Acts of God." Carrier Management asked executives ...
Knowledge Gaps and Convergence
Insurers covered $500 billion in catastrophe losses in the last 10 years. That huge number appears in Swiss Re's recent sigma report, "Underinsurance of Property Risks: Closing the Gap." It's hardly ...
QBE’s Dave Duclos Discusses Tools for Successful P/C Insurance Leaders
What is the first thing you do every day? I'm a morning person, so I wake up early and get right at it, in the office before 6 a.m. I like having a few quiet hours to myself to start the day, ...
Hiscox USA’s Benjamin Walter Discusses Tools for Successful P/C Insurance Leaders
What's the first thing you do every day? I think about the three things that, at a minimum, I want to accomplish that day. Three is enough to be substantial but not so onerous that it doesn't leave ...
Arch Capital: Growing the Hard Way
In spite of rumors swirling around Bermuda companies about potential mergers and acquisitions, Mark Lyons, chief financial officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd., said his company, a specialty insurer ...
The Next Frontier of Alternative Capital
The alternative reinsurance market is on steroids, bulking up to represent an estimated 12 percent of the global reinsurance market, according to estimates from Aon Benfield. This may seem like a ...
Reinsurance Executives Weigh In on Alternative Capital
Q: Alternative reinsurance capital.There has been speculation over the past few years that alternative capital providers will move into areas beyond property-catastrophe reinsurance—down from ...