Reinsurance
Vendor Cat Models Not Capturing Climate Change Impact: RenRe CEO
During a quarterly earnings call, the leader of RenaissanceRe discussed drivers of company's third straight double-digit operating ROE result, its resilience to inflation and recession risk, and also ...
RLI Bullish on Southeast Property Market as Others Exit
RLI Corp. has been hiring teams of property insurance professionals as the specialty insurer embraces opportunity in the southeastern U.S. market that others are fleeing, executives said Thursday ...
Are MGAs Winning the Insurance Talent War?
With more than 1,000 managing general agents writing roughly $70 billion in direct premiums last year, researchers at Conning believe one growth driver is the fact that the MGA model attracts talent. ...
Wildfires in Europe: ‘Climate Change Affects Everyone’
Authorities across southern Europe battled on Sunday to control huge wildfires in countries including Spain, Greece and France, with hundreds of deaths blamed on soaring temperatures that scientists ...
$7T in Premiums, Continued Hardening and Inflation’s Silver Lining: Swiss Re
Swiss Re's economists predict "inflationary recessions" hitting major world economies over the next 12-18 months, and while recessions spell less insurance demand and inflation means higher claim ...
Inflation May Halt Lloyd’s Positive Performance Trends
In a report published Monday, global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re concluded that while attritional loss ratios and overall combined ratios came down across the Lloyd's market in 2021, inflation ...
Worst-Ever Droughts, Fires Possible in EU: Climate Change Warning
The European Union's executive warned on Thursday that the continent is facing one of its toughest years when it comes to natural disasters like droughts and wildfires because of increasing climate ...
Midyear Prop-Cat Re Capacity Down For First Time in Decades: Aon
For the first time since the devastating U.S. hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, property-catastrophe capacity contracted during the June/July reinsurance renewal period, Aon said in a new report released ...