Risk & Capital Management
Insurance Costs Climb With Ocean Temps: Geneva Association Report
There's only one direction for insurance costs related to climate events to move in the years ahead—upward, according to a report published today about the implications of ocean warming for the ...
Towers Watson Looks Beyond Jihadi Terrorism with New Risk Model
If you ask Towers Watson's Chris Holt, one of the architects of a new terror model, what he fears when he goes to work each morning, the former British Army bomb-disposal officer will respond ...
FSB, FSOC Systemic Insurer Lists Need Alignment, Say U.S. Regulators
Insurers should not be forced to hold extra capital just because of their size, because the extra cost would simply be passed on to consumers, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday. G20 world leaders have ...
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 ...
Central European Flooding Is Credit Negative For P/C Insurers
Heavy rains in Central Europe that caused recent river flooding should produce total property insurance losses lower than an earlier severe flood event in 2002, but this is still credit negative for ...Tokio Solution Management, GC Securities Create Private Cat Bond Platform For Smaller Capacity Buyers
Tokio Solution Management Ltd. and GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp., have created a private catastrophe bond platform to meet the needs of an underserved segment of reinsurance ...
Top Five States Ranked By Insurable Coastal Value: AIR Worldwide
More than $10 trillion is at risk for residential and commerical properties located in the more than 100 coastal counties of 18 states along the Eastern and Gulf coasts, according to a recent report ...