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Analysis

  • The casualty sector has historically caged itself behind exclusions, but new ways of modelling the "unmodellable" could open the door to a wealth of underwriting opportunities, finds Adam McNestrie
  • Market intelligence on the QT
  • Business class updates for the global market
  • When I was a broker I never understood why so many liability underwriters looked down on their property brethren.
  • The first half of the year brought a mixed bag for returns among The Insurance Insider's composites as thinning underwriting margins and investment returns behaved differently for each group within our analysis.
  • While investment yields remained roughly at the same low levels of a year ago for some carrier groups, there was a surge in yields for London-listed (re)insurers during the first half of 2016.
  • Listed (re)insurers' underwriting results worsened in the second quarter of 2016 as carriers were bludgeoned by high cat losses while expense ratios continued to widen.
  • The second quarter proved to be a messy one for (re)insurers, with the period witnessing the highest level of insured cat losses since Superstorm Sandy struck in Q4 2012.
  • Profit forecasts for Names-backed Lloyd's syndicates in the 2014 year of account (YoA) improved during the second quarter of the year, aided by projected releases and exchange rate benefits
  • Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers
  • Total return reinsurers reported poorer results in the second quarter year-on-year after none of the carriers found themselves able to deliver profits on both sides of the business
  • Louisiana homeowners' insurers are largely expected to escape a significant loss burden from the deluge that has flooded large areas of the state in recent weeks, according to underwriting sources
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