O'Kane Archives - Carrier Management

Charman Questions Soft Market Re-Buying Strategies as Endurance Cedes More

As the market softens, should insurers and reinsurers keep more of their business net, or should they buy more reinsurance and retrocessional cover while there are lower prices and better terms? A ...

Capital Markets Poised To Grow Even Bigger In Cat Re Space

The participation of the capital markets in the property-catastrophe reinsurance industry is poised to explode beyond one-third of the total limits in the market, an industry executive said recently. ...

Is P/C Industry Overcapitalized? Maybe Not, Carrier CEO Says

The chairman and CEO of a specialty property/casualty insurance carrier called into question the notion that the industry is overcapitalized on last week, pointing to the changing nature of volatile ...