Is the Reinsurance Cycle Dead or Just Dormant? Executives Discuss New Realities October 2, 2018 By L.S. Howard Many reinsurance executives have been left scratching their heads in surprise after last year’s natural catastrophes, which cost a whopping...
Swiss Re Taps Berger From Allianz as CEO Corporate Solutions, Replacing Galvagni September 24, 2018 Swiss Re announced that Andreas Berger, currently chief regions & markets officer and member of the board of management of...
ILS Issuance in H1 Tops $7B, Reflecting Capital Markets’ Re/Insurance Appetite: Swiss Re August 31, 2018 The first half of 2018 aptly demonstrated that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has an undiminished appetite to provide re/insurance...
Swiss Re Names Higginbotham as CEO Reinsurance EMEA, Succeeding Henchoz August 24, 2018 Swiss Re announced that Russell Higginbotham has been appointed CEO Reinsurance EMEA and regional president EMEA and member of the...
Global Insured Catastrophe Losses Decline to $20 Billion in H1: Swiss Re August 16, 2018 Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2018 were US$20 billion, down from...
Munich Re to Stop Investing in Coal-Related Business, Insuring New Coal-Fired Plants August 6, 2018 Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer, will stop investing in bonds and shares of companies that generate more than 30...
Swiss Re Weighs IPO for UK Closed-Book Business; Pricing Pressures Hit Earnings August 3, 2018 By Jan-Henrik Förster Pricing pressure in the reinsurance industry weighed on Swiss Re’s first-half earnings, overshadowing a drop in natural-catastrophe claims. The company...
Sustainable Re/Insurance Industry Vital in Uncertain World: Swiss Re’s Ojeisekhoba July 16, 2018 By Moses Ojeisekhoba Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore described it as “the first taste of a bitter...
U.S. Sanctions Likely to Ban Use of Lloyd’s IT Platform for Processing Iran Insurance July 16, 2018 By Carolyn Cohn and Jonathan Saul New U.S. sanctions are likely to prevent the use of a Lloyd’s of London IT platform for any Iran insurance,...
Survey Shows More Americans Believe There is ‘Solid Evidence’ of Global Warming July 12, 2018 By Don Jergler There’s a surefire way to get more people to believe in global warming. Just crank up the heat. A larger...