Swiss Re Institute News
All Good Things Come to an End: U.S. P/C Insurance Premium Forecast Dips
From the perspective of insurance carriers, a four-year trend of superior growth is taking an unfavorable turn, giving way to more moderate levels of increase, according to a recently released ...
Natural Coastal Habitats Can Reduce Flood Losses: Swiss Re
Natural coastal habitats such as coral reefs, mangrove swamps and salt marshes can provide significant protection against lower-severity storms and help reduce flood ...
Quantifying Social Inflation: How Swiss Re Developed an Index
Swiss Re Institute (SRI) made a significant contribution to the literature on social inflation and its impacts on insurers, reinsurers and their customers with the calculation of a new measure—a ...
Another View: Yes, P/C Industry Underwriting Profit Will Be Back in ’24
Not all analysts think an underwriting profit is out of reach for 2024. While a recent forecast from Fitch Ratings puts the 2024 combined ratio above 100, but improved from 2023, a report by Swiss Re ...
Report: Advanced Digital Economies Wary of AI
Trust in artificial intelligence (AI) varies depending on how digitally advanced a country is, a recent study by the Swiss Re Institute found. In advanced digital economies, a third of respondents on ...
Swiss Re Estimates Global Insured Catastrophe Losses of $112B for 2021
Natural catastrophes caused global insured losses of $105 billion in 2021—the fourth highest since 1970, according to Swiss Re Institute's preliminary sigma estimate. This was up from $90 billion ...