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$1.9B Deal for Platinum Gives RenRe Bigger U.S. Casualty Share
The $1.9 billion cash-stock deal by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. for Platinum Underwriters Holdings will create a $4 billion company with a bigger footprint in the U.S. casualty and specialty ...
ILS Pullback to Slow Re Price Declines, Moody’s Says
While reinforcing a negative outlook for the global reinsurance industry, Moody's Investors Service predicted a pullback in activity from insurance-linked securities funds in a report released early ...
A.M. Best’s View of the Industry: One-on-One With Rating Officer Matt Mosher
"Capital itself is not the problem. It's like guns. It's what you do with the capital that's the problem." The surprising analogy came from Matthew Mosher, senior vice president of rating services ...
Midyear Re Prices Down Up to 25 Percent
Reinsurance prices fell by as much as 25 percent in key markets midyear as pension funds poured in money and demand for cover from insurance companies remained subdued, brokers said on Tuesday. ...
1990s Soft Market Redux? Not Quite, But Global Re Outlook Negative, Says Moody’s
In June, Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook on the global reinsurance sector to negative from stable, noting that the current soft market has traits similar to the one that persisted in ...
When Risks Start Adding Up: Spotting Potential Accumulations in Risks Yet to Emerge
When executives of property/casualty insurance carriers assess emerging risks—those already visible as well as those sitting just beneath the surface—the ones that are most worrisome have the ...
Market Pressures Require Reinsurer Response
The reinsurance industry is facing considerable headwinds in the current competitive market environment, with conditions unlikely to improve in the near term. Reinsurers, for their part, have not ...
A Conversation with Fermat Capital’s John Seo: The Evolution of Cat Bonds
John Seo, a pioneer in the catastrophe bond space, uses advanced technical models to assess the risk that investors will take on through portfolios of insurance-linked securities. But even simple ...