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Why Product Diversification Into E&S/Specialty Matters: A Q2 Top-Line Analysis
Looking at the second-quarter earnings reports of leading insurers, the argument for product diversification has never been stronger. Results are in from this COVID-impacted quarter, and they ...
Swiss Re’s Risk Radar
Swiss Re's annual SONAR report, published in early June, highlights 14 emerging risks that will impact different sectors of the insurance industry in different time frames. The accompanying chart ...
Envelop Risk Paves the Way as InsurTech Reinsurance MGA
Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits. "We think we're the only InsurTech firm involved in ...
MGA New Paradigm Aims to Bridge the Natural Catastrophe Protection Gap
Evan Glassman saw a gap in the property insurance market—literally. Glassman, working as a retail producer in south Florida for most of his career, realized that the insurance industry's products ...
Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Apart
Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model. "For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a ...
Finding Niches: Reinsurance MGAs Carving Out Special Market Slices
Reinsurance managing general agents are a rare breed as opposed to their more prevalent insurance-focused counterparts. The successful reinsurance MGAs have a niche, a focus. What they have in common ...
Social Inflation and the Risk of D&O-GL Clash
Social inflation is the primary explanation offered for the need to increase general liability and excess casualty premiums in the last two years. With social inflation, injured parties are more ...
From ‘Blue Sky’ Thinking to Groundbreaking Risk Initiatives
Sometimes we get in our own way. We think our ideas are crazy and rationalize them away because we see too many hurdles to overcome. Before we know it, we've tossed aside an idea that could have made ...