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The energy market is likely to continue softening into 2017 as huge overcapacity bears down on rates, according to JLT.
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Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers
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Most carriers in our coverage universe registered modest share price increases last week, but the clear outliers were euro-denominated stocks, which climbed by mid-single digits.
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Global specialty insurers and reinsurers, particularly those trading in the Lloyd's market, are struggling to deal with a mounting expense problem.
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An investment-driven increase in pre-tax profits in the first half of 2016 could not mask the mounting challenges for the Lloyd's market, as underwriting profits crashed and rates continued to deteriorate.
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Mutual insurers in the P&C space reported only "moderate" growth in net written premium (NWP) last year, according to a report from rating agency AM Best.
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Successful long-term investors stock picking in an increasingly challenged P&C (re)insurance sector typically look beyond potentially volatile quarterly earnings to carriers' total value creation
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Primary carriers have increased their appetite for reinsurance given the accommodating market conditions, as the year-end 2015 and H1 2016 results highlighted cedants' preference for reinsurance over other forms of capital
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The stock performance of global reinsurers, Lloyd's carriers and Bermudian carriers was tumultuous in the first two quarters of 2016 but has returned to steady growth so far in the third quarter
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The wave of sector M&A in the last couple of years has begun to reshape the excess and surplus lines (E&S) market, reshuffling the ranks of its major players in the process
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Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers
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Reinsurance broker JLT Re has warned that the industry is entering a "danger phase" as reserve releases threaten to outpace loss experience.
