Central European Insurers’ Financial Strength to Remain Solid Despite Severe Floods September 25, 2024 By L.S. Howard The heavy rains and severe floods of Storm Boris, which inundated Central and Eastern Europe during the second week in...
Reinsurers’ Appetite for Natural Catastrophe Risks Grows – But Discipline Remains September 4, 2024 By L.S. Howard Top reinsurers are showing increasing – but disciplined – appetite for natural catastrophe risks as a result of rising demand,...
S&P Upgrades Lloyd’s Financial Strength Rating to AA- December 15, 2023 S&P Global Ratings has revised its financial strength rating for Lloyd’s of London to “AA–”, outlook stable, from “A+”, outlook...
Parent of Key SiriusPoint Shareholder Goes Into Receivership; Ratings Impact Neutral December 14, 2023 By L.S. Howard SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, announced that the parent company of a key shareholder has been taken...
S&P Raises Reinsurance Sector View to Stable From Negative as Rates Keep Rising September 5, 2023 By Carolyn Cohn S&P Global has raised its view of the global reinsurance sector to stable from negative, it said on Tuesday, due...
Reinsurers’ Cyber Rates Expected to Rise as They Seek to Regain Profitability: S&P August 29, 2023 By L.S. Howard More cyber reinsurance rate increases can be expected as reinsurers seek to regain underwriting profits in their cyber portfolios, according...
S&P Revises Outlooks for Munich Re, Swiss Re While Affirming AA- Ratings August 18, 2023 S&P Global Ratings has revised its outlooks for Munich Re and Swiss Re, affirming both reinsurers’ “AA-” issuer credit and...
Ratings Firms Struggle With Climate Risk in $133 Trillion Market August 3, 2023 By Gautam Naik With 46 straight days of 100-degree heat and coastal waters approaching hot-tub temperatures, Miami can seem like a clear example...
Will S&P Change ‘Negative’ Reinsurance Outlook to ‘Stable’ in 2023? July 14, 2023 By Susanne Sclafane While no one directly asked the question of this article’s headline at the S&P Global Ratings June annual insurance conference,...
Why the Investor-Driven Hard Reinsurance Market Will Persist in 2024 June 29, 2023 By Susanne Sclafane Reinsurers will continue to command adequate rates for property-catastrophe in 2024, even if the market comes through hurricane season unscathed,...