Bank of Japan Scraps Radical Policy, Makes First Interest Rate Hike in 17 Years March 19, 2024 The Bank of Japan (BOJ) ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on...
Reinsurance M&A Slows Amid Macroeconomic Risks, Higher Natural Disaster Claims August 15, 2022 Mergers and acquisitions in the global reinsurance sector will be limited into 2023 amid investor concerns over macroeconomic risks and...
Insurers to Hike Private Market Investments; Environmental Focus Grows: BlackRock November 15, 2021 By Simon Jessop and Ross Kerber GLASGOW / NEW YORK – Insurers plan to increase their allocations to private markets to 14% from 11% over the...
Re/Insurers Need a Data Strategy to Build Underwriting Transformation Programs October 20, 2021 By Sachin Kulkarni Years of low interest rates and burgeoning catastrophe losses have accelerated the hardening of the reinsurance market, as the January...
Europe’s Insurers Expect Robust M&A Activity and Strong Earnings in 2021: Moody’s June 22, 2021 Europe’s insurance industry is emerging from the coronavirus crisis with a stronger appetite for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), along with...
Reinsurers’ Investment Strategies Offer Buffer for Low Interest Rates, Pandemic: S&P October 30, 2020 By L.S. Howard A decade of low interest rates and tough underwriting conditions has led reinsurers to cautiously invest in riskier and more...
Social Inflation, Low Interest Rates, Rising Catastrophes: Recipe for a Hard Market September 9, 2020 By L.S. Howard Even before the coronavirus crisis hit, the re/insurance industry was in a period of significant rate hardening, which will likely...
Zurich Helps Firms Deal with Negative Interest Rates by Insuring Cash Parked in Vaults October 10, 2019 By Catherine Bosley In the Swiss canton of Zug, officials are going to extremes to avoid getting penalized by the world’s lowest interest...
Global Insurance Industry Set to Grow by 4.5% in 2017-2018: Munich Re April 21, 2017 The global insurance industry is set to grow more strongly at 4.5 percent per annum on average (3.0 percent in...
Re/Insurers’ Fundamentals Begin to Erode in Challenge-Filled Market: A.M. Best December 16, 2016 The ongoing pressures of diminishing investment returns, dwindling loss reserves and intense competition are beginning to erode industry fundamentals, cautioned...