Capacity continues to outpace the growth of reinsurance demand despite insurers’ continued efforts to optimize their view of reinsurance as...
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Some observers believe the bottom of the reinsurance market may be in sight because brokers are having greater difficulty filling...
Reinsurance pricing continued trending downward at the Jan. 1, 2017 renewal — across most classes of business and geographies, but...
The flow of so-called alternative capital into the global reinsurance market is continuing, bringing it closer to the “convergence” in...
Mitsui & Co., Japan’s second-biggest trading house, agreed to purchase a 15 percent stake in New Ocean Capital, the asset...
Catastrophe-bond issuance slipped to its lowest level since 2011 over the past year as the securities outperformed the S&P 500...
Some traditional reinsurers have asserted that catastrophe bonds are unreliable in terms of paying claims after major events. A new...
A powerful earthquake in Italy on Wednesday is unlikely to force UnipolSai’s 200 million euro ($226 mln) catastrophe bond into...
It won’t take another Hurricane Katrina for reinsurers to face losses from covering the cost of storms and earthquakes. Competitors...
Total non-life catastrophe bond market issuance for the first half of 2016 rose to $2.8 billion, according to the latest...