David Flandro Archives - Carrier Management

Reinsurance Rates Still Falling—But Less at June 1: JLT Re

Property-catastrophe reinsurance rate declines are continuing to taper off from the double-digit average drops that were recorded two years ago, JLT Re reported in a report yesterday. JLT Re's ...

Heard at PCI Meeting: Reserve Covers, Capital Relief Deals Are Growing Trend

They may not be the new black, but references to adverse development covers and capital relief solutions and cropped up more than once in conversations with reinsurance market participants during the ...

For P/C Carrier CFOs, It’s Time to Revisit Reinsurance Buying Strategies

Capital levels in the property/casualty insurance sector can be ambiguous. As in other industries, capital can be fungible or trapped, liquid or illiquid, affected by prevailing asset values, ...

‘Breakaway’ Pricing Seen From Capital Markets Pressuring Traditional Re

With third-party investors putting increased levels of capital into catastrophe bonds, sidecars and collateralized reinsurance, pricing in the capital markets is now, for the first time, "decoupled" ...