Reinsurers Maintain Upward Pricing Momentum-But Will It Last? October 24, 2019 By L.S. Howard Positive pricing momentum—it’s the favorite phrase of many reinsurance executives, who are hoping that the momentum they’ve seen in 2019...
Reinsurers Look at Cyber’s Massive Growth Possibilities-With Caution October 22, 2019 By L.S. Howard Reinsurers are aware they must constantly invent new solutions in order to stay relevant for their clients. Yet, they admit...
Re/insurers Rethink Climate Change Risks as Losses Grow from Wildfires, Floods, Hail September 20, 2019 By Lena Masri By the time David Kaisel got back from selling his flour at a farmers’ market, a wildfire in California’s Capay...
Space-Faring Nations Need Regulations to Prevent Satellite Collisions: Opinion September 9, 2019 By Adam Minter, Bloomberg Opinion Last week, the European Space Agency reached out to to warn Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that one of...
Global Policymakers Must Focus on Strengthening Economic Resilience: Swiss Re August 27, 2019 By Michelle Jamrisko A decade after the last financial crisis, attention is too focused on what central bankers can do to prevent the...
Parametric Insurance Cover Provides French Farmers with Drought Relief August 2, 2019 By Inti Landauro Hundreds of French farmers who signed up for specialist policies aimed at insuring against freak weather are getting swift payouts...
Space Insurance Premiums Could Double After European Vega Rocket Crash July 31, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn, Tom Sims and Noor Zainab Hussain Space rockets and satellites are likely to cost more to insure after the European Vega rocket crash this month, which...
Swiss Re Postpones $4B ReAssure IPO, Citing Weak Investor Demand July 11, 2019 By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Arno Schuetze Reinsurance group Swiss Re suspended plans for a $4.1 billion initial public offering of British life insurer ReAssure on the...
Asia Market Drives Global Insurance Premiums Past $5 Trillion in 2018: Swiss Re July 8, 2019 Carriers’ expansion in Asia helped push global insurance premiums past the $5 trillion mark for the first time in 2018,...
Higginbotham Named Swiss Re’s CEO Reinsurance Asia, Replacing Plunkett June 27, 2019 Swiss Re announced that Russell Higginbotham has been appointed CEO Reinsurance Asia and regional president, effective July 8, 2019, and...