Analysis

The Insurance Insider's Bermuda composite experienced a significant top-line increase in the first quarter of 2016, with the group's total gross written premium (GWP) up by almost a third.

A couple of weeks into the results season, the first quarter has delivered mixed earnings disclosures and underwriting performances, with companies under the vigilant eye of the stock market.

Many (re)insurers have explored investing in loans as part of their credit portfolio in recent years.

The first cat bond of the second quarter signalled strong investor demand, as insurance-linked securities (ILS) broker-dealers tipped that the market's pricing dynamics could shift to a period of softening.

Returns in the reinsurance market fell in 2015 as rate softening eroded core underwriting margins, according to Willis Re

The global insurance industry is cautiously optimistic about investment opportunities in 2016, according to a survey from Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM).

The introduction of large and complex floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) vessels into the energy industry will create new high-exposure risks for insurers.

Travelers was impacted by the return to a relatively normal level of catastrophe events in the first quarter, leading the US carrier to report a deterioration in its overall underwriting results.

Early Q1 reporters stressed that pricing pressure continued in the first three months of the year, with US carriers Travelers and RLI feeling the squeeze along with Bermudian Allied World.

Last week proved to be a positive one, particularly for euro-denominated stocks, with some insurers recording share price rises of more than 10 percent.

Women have a seat on less than half of the executive boards for companies in the Lloyd's market, a new survey from the Corporation's diversity division has found.

A review of the US directors' and officers' (D&O) market by Fitch Ratings has predicted that rates will continue to decline in 2016, given the headwinds of plentiful capacity and stable loss levels.