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The Mood in Monte Carlo

For a financial sector posting a double-digit rise in earnings and boasting large cash piles, reinsurers sure see a lot of storm clouds on the horizon. That’s because they are facing what many see as an unprecedented problem: an abundance …

Falling Reinsurance Rates Presage Sector Shake-out

A slump in reinsurance prices is playing to the strengths of the biggest global reinsurers, while piling pressure on smaller competitors to diversify or consolidate. Reinsurers, which help insurers shoulder risk in exchange for part of the profit, this month …