Analysis

Business class updates for the global market

IQ's round-up of regional market developments

And so, they keep coming. ABR Re follows Watford Re. Alloy Re is currently rattling the tin on Wall Street. And Aligned Re has just hit the road too.

Over recent months, The Insurance Insider has reviewed various investment strategies for the insurance CIO to consider in a Solvency II world.

Challenging macroeconomic conditions for mining companies and the fallout from several large disasters have impacted insurers in the sector, according to Marsh.

The US commercial lines sector has reached an inflection point in early 2016 as rates began falling after a year of gradually slowing increases, Bernstein reported in its latest analysis.

In a continuation of the trend for underwriting and investment to counterbalance one another, the trio of total return reinsurers again struggled to profit on both the asset and liability sides of their businesses.

Share price data on The Insurance Insider's universe of P&C (re)insurers

Global broker Marsh has highlighted increased competition between local and international insurers in the Pacific region as one of the key trends in the market.

The UK and the Middle East have seen widespread softening of up to 10 percent across virtually all major lines of business, according to global broker Marsh.

Strong competition and high levels of capacity for US casualty risk again put pressure on prices in 2015, leading to rate reductions of up to 10 percent, according to a study by Marsh.

Rate decreases in the US commercial property market show no signs of stopping, according to a new report from Marsh.