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Whether Fairfax Financial winds up adding Allied World to its expanding array of operating units may depend on how much more the acquisitive Canadian company is willing to spend.
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Property catastrophe reinsurance rates appear to be on course for further stabilisation at the 1 January renewals, equity analysts reported following meetings with executives at Bermudian carriers.
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Lloyd's Names were presented with new investment opportunities in the run-up to 2017, with four out of five full syndicate start-ups securing Names backing.
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Shares in Novae fell as much as 27 percent last week after the London-based (re)insurer warned that its full-year profits would fall due to larger individual risk losses in the second half of the year.
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Are the global reinsurance and wholesale specialty markets bound to succeed over the longer term?
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While some groups posted increased investment returns in the third quarter, yield remained at low single-digit levels for all the P&C carriers in our coverage universe
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Underwriting performance across the P&C (re)insurance companies in our coverage universe worsened in the third quarter of the year, as reserve releases offered less support to margins and core loss ratios widened
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(Re)insurers delivered an uninspiring set of results in the third quarter, leaving investors wary in the run-up to the forthcoming full-year releases
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Analysts combing through third-quarter earnings reports have expressed concern over shrinking reserve pools in the US P&C sector, an industry headwind likely to continue for the next 18 months.
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The Insurance Insider's composite of global reinsurers recorded better third quarter underwriting margins in their P&C reinsurance arms, despite the amplifying pressures on profitability in the current market environment
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With a more diverse range of owners entering the reinsurance space, will the sector ultimately reward these new investors with vintage returns, asks Fiona Robertson
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