Underwriting & Pricing
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Reorganizes Alternative Risk Transfer Business
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) said it is reshaping its Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) business into two new specialist teams, a move responding to the growing importance of ...
Is the Reinsurance Cycle Dead or Just Dormant?
Many reinsurance executives have been left scratching their heads in surprise after last year's natural catastrophes, which cost a whopping $100 billion but ended up having very little impact on ...
Safeco Will Take Over Donegal Mutual’s Personal Lines Biz in 7 States
Donegal Mutual Insurance Co. is exiting the personal lines business in seven of the 22 states in which it does business and will transfer those personal lines accounts worth $25 million in premium to ...
Opinion: Catastrophe Bonds Are a Smashing Success
Leave it to catastrophe bonds to be among the most well-functioning debt markets out there. Issuance of "cat bonds" has climbed to more than $11 billion this year, about the same as this time in ...
‘He’s Gaining on Us?’ An ‘Inconceivable’ Quarter of InsurTech Carrier Financials
As we worked on pulling together this third installment of our review of U.S. InsurTech startup financials, we were reminded of the scene from "The Princess Bride" in which a masked man in black ...
Second-Quarter 2018 Financial Details for Lemonade, Root and Metromile
Does Lemonade have shlimazels for customers? Is slower second-quarter growth at Root an indicator that the carrier is deliberately focusing on profitability? Do Ajit Jain and Rob Berkley know ...
Write Here, Right Now: How AI Can Amplify Your Business Results
Here's something we typically hear from frustrated underwriting managers:• "We bind around 12 percent of our submissions, but our underwriters review 100 percent of ...
For QBE, a Focus on Profitable Underwriting Begins to Pay Off
QBE's restructuring over the last year has focused on exiting loss-making businesses and portfolios, while rigorously emphasizing profitable underwriting across the group. Good progress has been made ...