Reinsurance
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 ...
The Global Urgency of Building the Carbon Removal Industry
"If you build it, they will come." This famous, but paraphrased, quote from the film "Field of Dreams" is apropos of the fledgling carbon removal industry. The demand is there, but supply needs to be ...
Insurance Industry Support of Carbon Removal Needed in Drive to Net Zero
Ditching investments in fossil fuel businesses—and denying them insurance—aren't the only ways for the insurance industry to participate in the drive to net zero greenhouse gas emissions, ...