Reinsurance
S&P Sees Improved Outlooks for Munich Re and Swiss Re
S&P Global Ratings affirmed the ratings of the two biggest global reinsurers this week, Munich Re and Swiss Re, also revising the outlooks for both of them. For Munich Re, S&P affirmed its ...
Severe Convective Storms Dominate Insured Natural Disaster Losses in H1: Swiss Re
Global natural catastrophes cost insurers $50 billion in the first half of 2023, (H1 2022: $48 billion), with most of the losses stemming from severe convective storms, ...
Hard Market Game Refuses to End: Arch Capital CEO
Drawing analogies to an epic tennis match and the hands of a clock, the leader of Bermuda-based Arch Capital declared the current hard market one of the longest the P/C industry has ever experienced. ...
Guy Carp Analysis: Cyber Cat Model Results Diverge
Significant progress has been made in advancing vendor's cyber catastrophe models, but a notable degree of variability exists across model outputs, which can pose a challenge to insurance and ...
Reinsurance Broker Augment Launches With Access to $100M in Funding
Augment, a new Miami-headquartered reinsurance broker, announced its official launch with access of up to $100 million in funding from Altamont Capital Partners.
One of the world's top insurers is mulling offloading its property reinsurance business in a bid to cut its exposure to natural disasters like hurricanes, according to ... Farmers Insurance announced that Kevin Yoo will join the organization as chief claims officer effective July 12. Yoo has an extensive ...
Will S&P Change ‘Negative’ Reinsurance Outlook to ‘Stable’ in ’23?
While no one directly asked the question of this article's headline at the S&P Global Ratings June annual insurance conference, the prospect that an outlook change is near came into view during ...
AXA Weighs Offloading $2B Reinsurance Arm to Cut Exposure to Disasters: Sources
Conning: Fronting Market Growth Expected to Slow
The U.S. fronting market, where specialized carriers offer their financial strength rating, licensing and other services primarily to managing general agents (MGAs), has seen dramatic growth in ...
Executives on the Move at Farmers, Hiscox, Swiss Re