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Reinsurance Execs Weigh In on Their Biggest Challenges
Q: Challenges. Which of the following factors do you believe has had the biggest impact on the reinsurance market in 2015? Which is likely to be the most significant factor in 2016? Changing buyer ...
TransRe: Where Reinsurance Is Job 1
As a pure reinsurer, TransRe stands apart from hybrids that combine both primary insurance and reinsurance in their operating models. And that's a situation that CEO Michael Sapnar expects to ...
Reinsurance Execs Weigh In on Consolidation
Q: Consolidation. In your view, is M&A activity done in the reinsurance sector or is there more to come? What has been the impact of consolidation of insurers, reinsurers and brokers on the ...
Reinsurance Execs Weigh In on Pricing
Q: The Pricing Environment.Recent rating agency reports contained the following observations about the reinsurance pricing environment: S&P: "Price competition for global property/casualty ...
Questions About the Future of the Reinsurance Market Answered
Anthropologist Paula Jarzabkowski raised questions about the stability of the industry after digging up its history for her book "Making a Market for Acts of God." Carrier Management asked executives ...
Knowledge Gaps and Convergence
Insurers covered $500 billion in catastrophe losses in the last 10 years. That huge number appears in Swiss Re's recent sigma report, "Underinsurance of Property Risks: Closing the Gap." It's hardly ...
QBE’s Dave Duclos Discusses Tools for Successful P/C Insurance Leaders
What is the first thing you do every day? I'm a morning person, so I wake up early and get right at it, in the office before 6 a.m. I like having a few quiet hours to myself to start the day, ...
Hiscox USA’s Benjamin Walter Discusses Tools for Successful P/C Insurance Leaders
What's the first thing you do every day? I think about the three things that, at a minimum, I want to accomplish that day. Three is enough to be substantial but not so onerous that it doesn't leave ...