Reinsurance
Re Market ‘Past Convergence’ With Capital Over Half-A-Trillion
Global reinsurer capital, which had reached a peak of $515 billion at the end of first-quarter 2013, still stood above the half-trillion mark at June 30, dropping slightly to $510 billion, according ...
Lloyd’s Chairman Nelson: Investment Boom Puts Insurance At Risk
A flood of investment capital into structures linked to insurance could lead to instability and spark a new financial crisis if left unsupervised, a top official has warned. Billions of dollars from ...
Reinsurers Could Face Pressure to Lower Rates Amid Capital Oversupply
Munich Re and Swiss Re Ltd. are among reinsurers likely to face further pressure to lower the rates they charge clients as the capital available for backing policies remains near a record high, ...
Rating S&P’s New Method: Transparency Improved, But Execution Consistency Falls Short
In May, Standard & Poor's confirmed that it had finalized a 10-month "Request for Comment" (RfC) process around proposed changes to the rating agency's criteria for rating insurers and ...
Wells Media Launches Carrier Management Print Magazine
Wells Media Group Inc. has launched a new print publication, Carrier Management Magazine, for property/casualty (P/C) insurance executives. This magazine launch follows the spring debut of the ...Tooker to Replace Cholnoky as General Reinsurance President in 2014
John Cholnoky will retire as president of General Reinsurance Corp. during the first quarter of next year, the Stamford, Conn.-based reinsurer said. The company, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway ...
RenaissanceRe and Munich Re Reach Agreement on U.S.-Based Weather and Energy Unit
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced Tuesday that it entered into an agreement with Munich Re to sell its U.S.-based weather and weather-related energy risk management unit, RenRe Energy Advisors ...
Florida’s Property Insurer Avoids Storms, Piles Up Cash As Its Bonds Suffer
Florida's government-run insurance system has amassed record cash reserves as hurricanes bypassed the state since 2005. That hasn't helped investors in its bonds, with some trailing benchmarks by the ...